My mom’s in town from Toronto. My niece and nephew are with her as well visiting. Max and Rachel love this as do I. I wake up to congrats from my blogger/friends via email on the WEBX deal (who needs CNBC). I have made some absolutley incredible friends blogging and through my ventures the last …
Tagged: Venture Capital
Failing Fast and Cheap
Josh Kopelman has a great piece about the costs of starting a software company in the internet world . A must read. There are businesses that will always need gobs of money to start, but in the web software world, it remains a great time to fund and be funded. If you are looking to …
Must Read for Start-ups
Great White North VC blogger, Rick Segal (on my blogroll forever), has a must read post for start-ups issuing shares . Here is the most important advice: Shareholders agreement, minority rights and voting trusts are things you need to learn about before you give out the first share of your company. The most important thing …
The Next Net 25 from Business 2.0
A good reference for up and comers and sectors of the net poised for dominance in the years ahead . We use blip.tv at Wallstrip and are working with Meebo on some ideas as well. Congrats to all that made the list. Also, congrats to Adaptive Blue on receiving funding from Union Square Ventures (here …
Venture Capital Unplugged ?
Humorous and creative look at the Venture Capital business. Thanks to my friend and fellow golf lover Marc for the find:
Veoh Viral – Like it!
It is a little long. Maybe a daily show with one story, but still a step in the right direction. Veoh VC Bijan Sabet has the full detail and links. Bijan is cool. So is Veoh. They have traffic, they have video fanatics, so why not go behind the scenes. It’s Om’s NewTeeVee with more …
Preventing Identity Theft – advice from someone smarter than me!
David Cowan has been on my blogroll from the beginning. His blog is full of great posts on investing, roadmaps and advice for entrepreneurs. I was extremely excited to hear that he and his firm Bessemer Ventures were investing in Lifelock. He has a great post on “Preventing Identity Theft” that explains the firm’s view …
Lifelock Gets Venture Funding – from Bessemer – sweet.
Lifelock , one of my angel investments, closed on approximately $4.5 million in venture funding from Bessemer Venture Partners . Bessemer has a great website and has had just a few winners (Skype and Verisign) :) . I am happy for everybody involved. This was a deal that I almost passed on 20 times. I …
Asking the right questions…
Somewhere I have heard that it is very important to ask the right questions (probably my wife Ellen, the retired lawyer). One question that we forgot to ask Fred during our interview yesterday was about his worst investment. How it felt? What went wrong? When did he know it was a “goner”as “Arthur” would say, …
Wallstrip's Friday Chat with Fred Wilson
I hope to post the full really cool interview we did with Fred Wilson over the weekend. In the meantime, we have a great internet microchunked interview with Fred over at Wallstrip. He has been kind with his time and insight in helping us launch Wallstrip. He is a great champion of the web and …