If you use Twitter and think it is a valuable service then you’re probably tired of the steady stream of your friends who tell you it’s just a fad and they don’t feel compelled to join.  They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.”  They’re fine on th ... Read the full po ... Read more

I lived in the UK for nearly a decade.  I loved my experience there and wish I got back more often now.  As a political junkie one of my favorite things to do was to watch  Question Time .   If you never seen Question Time it’s worth worth 2 minutes to watch this short video of ... Read more

Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise .  In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded.  In general when capital is available take it (provided it’s on the right conditions and from the best people from whom you can rai ... Read more

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital . Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right amout of capital to raise at a startup?” It’s a tricky question w ... Read more

File this under entrepreneurial advice I know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise it’s relevant.  You actually need to give advice to nearly every employee whom you offer a job to on how to best quit their job.  This is important to improv ... Read more

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice . I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read ... Read the full ... Read more

I’ve been enjoying using Plancast over the past month or so.  I’m not an investor and though I wouldn’t rule it out in the future I’m not currently looking at the company. Just wanted to get that out of the way up front so I won’t look like a vested-intere ... Read more

One of the questions I’m most often asked is, “what’s it like being a VC?”  I’ve been a VC for nearly 3 years now.  Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post.  I always start my answer to this question with, R ... Read more

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here .   Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised.  I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice. ... Read more

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot.  Many of them are painfully boring.  It’s a shame since it’s such a golden opportunity for you to build awareness with your audience for who you are and what you do.  And it’s a surprisingly great way to ... Read more