Posted 6 days ago

I received an email today from ExecSense Webinars advertising a course on How to Create a Personal Brand as a Venture Capitalist. That's right, for $250, I can learn specific ways to use speaking

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Posted 1 week ago

As Twitter has risen to prominence, many loud voices have declared it the future of media, the future of journalism, even the future of the free world. I am a fan of Twitter. It is a powerful servic

Posted 3 weeks ago

Despite my best efforts, there was no way that I was going to actually manage to blog while I was still at the TED conference this year. I don't know how anyone can do it. I suppose that is why ther

Posted 3 weeks ago

After a bunch of early speculation, it was announced last week that Google has acquired Aardvark. It didn't surprise me one bit that Google wanted to own Aardvark. Aardvark is completely awesome. A

Posted 5 weeks ago

What we think of as Venture Capital today is a pretty young profession. Modern VC firms first came into existence in the 1960s, started by the likes of Bill Draper, Pitch Johnson and Reid Dennis.

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Posted 5 weeks ago

I've just arrived in Long Beach for the annual TED conference. When I first started going to TED, it was a relatively small, relatively unknown gathering in Monterey, California. But don't confuse r

Posted 5 weeks ago

Over the last few weeks I've started to suffer from Four Square fatigue. After all, Four Square is a lot of work. To get the benefits of Four Square, you need to proactively check in wherever you go

Posted 6 weeks ago

I'm always amazed to hear VCs describe themselves as value added investors. Not because I am skeptical about their ability to add value. More because I think all investors need to be value added.

Posted 7 weeks ago

This afternoon I attended an event sponsored by Proctor & Gamble called the Innovation Outreach Venturing Day. The event was an effort by executives at P&G to connect with the investment community

Posted 8 weeks ago

When I first started blogging, I wrote a lot. Everything I saw in my day-to-day VC world called out for a blog entry. Great competitive landscape slide -- blog about it. Exciting presentation at th

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