Yesterday's WSJ had an interesting piece about Alacra 's new Pulse Pro offering . For those that don't know, I invested in Alacra in 1999 via Flatiron Partners and have been on its board ever since. Alacra has been developing and selling information services to the banking, brokerage ... Read t ... Read more

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.”  I think the perfect saying to have as a reminder is “time is the enemy of all deals,” or as my wife is all too tired of hearing me say, “Don’t pop the champagne until the ink is d ... Read more

I love the Pogoplug .  We’ve been investors in the company for about a year and it has been a blast working with the team.  Pogoplug is in our Digital Life theme and has a lot of conceptual similarities to our previous investment in Sling Media (now part of EchoStar) ... Read the ful ... Read more

Sramana Mitra is running a series at her blog that features a selection of posts from the blogsphere on bootstrapping. The first three posts she features includes: Luke Timmerman at Xconomy writing about a biotech start-up that bootstrapped its first 20 months with no support from VCs. ... Re ... Read more

Entrepreneurs and the companies they create are the raw material of the startup world. There has been an ongoing tug of war for their hearts and minds between big companies and VCs. For a while the big companies were winning. From the internet bubble burst until recently, most every hot company to ... Read more

In my short video review of the book Bootstrapping: Weapons of Mass Reconstruction by Sramana Mitra , I mentioned that she brings up the topic of mental capital. At many points throughout the book, Sramana talks about why entrepreneurs and start-ups should not go looking for venture capital ... Read more

In a guest post at TechCrunch, Vivek Wadhwa adds his voice to those questioning the VC industry's play for bailout money: What we need to do is to apply the same rules to VC's which they impose on their companies - force them to make tough choices and get their business models in order. ... Re ... Read more

About half of its 250 million monthly users worldwide log-in everyday. About a quarter, or 65 million, used the site from mobile devices in August, according to Henri Moissinac, director of Facebook Mobile. That's more than three times what it was in December, when 20 million users were using Facebo ... Read more