» My 10th TED Conference
09/02/10 08:27 from VentureBlog
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 relatively small and relatively unknown f..

» Denmark Leads the Household Leverage Sweepstakes
09/02/10 08:26 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
Who let four northern European countries sneak past the U.S. in the household leverage sweepstakes? Source: Global Household Leverage, House Prices, and Consumption , By Reuven Glick, and Kevin J. Lansing

» Hugh Hendry, Marc Faber, and Nassim Taleb Go to Russia
09/02/10 06:27 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
An alternately sober-minded and gibbering mad – but never boring and mostly riveting -- hour-long what-would-you-invest-in panel with Nassim Taleb, Marc Faber, Hugh Hendry and others from the just-completed Russia 2010 conference:

» Example of Rally Software Building A Great Company
09/02/10 04:58 from Feld Thoughts
Lots of little things go into building a great company over the long term.  Rally Software is one that I’m proud to have been involved in from the beginning.  I remember when Ryan Martens, the founder, would sit for entire days i..

» “Revenue-neutral”: The last hope for climate change legislation?
08/02/10 18:43 from Cleantech Investing
I've picked up on a couple of mentions lately of Senators on both sides of the aisle starting to work on revenue-neutral alternatives to the Waxman-Markey type of cap and trade climate legislation that has been the focus of attention ever ..

» Open Angel Forum Is Off To A Great Start
08/02/10 05:18 from Feld Thoughts
When I wrote my post titled An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit I expected to write my little rant and be done with it.  A month or so later Jason Calacanis picked up the mantle and started a Jihad against the idea of ang..

» More Reading: Niall Ferguson, Euro Depression, Nevada, etc.
07/02/10 21:10 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
A few more things I just had to share: Deliriously bizarre, gossipy, etc. piece about econohistorian Niall Fergson, from footballers to fatwas ( Daily Mail ) Europe risks another global depression ( Simon Johnson ) Nevada budget crisis..

» Economists, Crises, and Cartoons
07/02/10 19:40 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
Apparently I'm not the only one to notice the rise of economists in cartoons during financial crises. As a related aside, this paper has some fabulous old crisis cartoons. Economists, Crises and Cartoons David M. Levy Center for Study of P..

» Weekend Reading: Greenspan, EM Bonds, Cash-in Refis, China, etc.
07/02/10 19:31 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
From my weekly Weekend Reading column, a few articles and papers worth reading: Alan Greenspan fights back against critics ( Source ) Emerging-Market Bond Sales Stall as BES Scraps Issue ( Source ) Recovery teeters as debt threat spreads (..

» Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps
07/02/10 14:12 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash . I took more heat for that post than anything else I've written here other than political posts. It opened my eyes to the fact that Flash vs HTML5 is one of the most po..

» In a board room, somewhere in Silicon Valley…
06/02/10 20:20 from Nivi
… a founder, a VC, and his Associate negotiate a down round. Very NSFW. Video: Old Face Andre talks economics with Omar Another business lesson from The Wire — about intellectual property: “It ain't about right, it's about money.R..

» Mauldin: A Bubble in Search of a Pin
06/02/10 19:56 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
John Mauldin’s latest : Should Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and acted, or should we accept their defense that you can't know whether there is a bubble until after the fact? We will look at research..

» Lightweight Advocacy
06/02/10 12:15 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
I was at a board meeting of a non profit this week and the talk turned to "advocacy" and whether or not the non profit should be doing any of that. I had to ask what the definition of advocacy was just to be clear what we were talking abou..

» Random Fiscal Factoid: Alt Universe U.S.?
06/02/10 01:01 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
Out of curiosity, what do you think the U.S. deficit would look like today if annual federal fiscal expenditures had grown at 4% since 2000, rather than at almost 8% compounded? Answer follows: In short, if U.S. expenditures had grown at th..

» VCIR Success – by the numbers
05/02/10 21:47 from VC Adventure
This is a cross post from the VCIR blog . We recently put together an analysis of companies that have presented at VCIR over the last 10 years. And the numbers are pretty impressive – reinforcing why the conference is such a great opportun..

» Readings: Dollar, Britain, Lotteries, Bailouts, etc.
05/02/10 20:10 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
Britain's “broken society”: Through a glass darkly ( Source ) Is the International Role of the Dollar Changing? ( Source ) Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries ( Source ) Vote for Ignoble/Dynamite Ec..

» Four Square Fatigue and the Evolution of Privacy
05/02/10 17:59 from VentureBlog
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. And, while each checkin requires a rela..

» SnapCamp in Boulder – All for Good and Lots of Fun
05/02/10 17:00 from Feld Thoughts
I think Boulder is one of the absolute best places to start a tech company . The depth of talent and overall strength of our tech community here is superb. It turns out that makes it a great place to start a community-based tech nonprofit ..

» StartupList: Day 1 — Thank You
05/02/10 16:07 from Nivi
We're blown away by the support for StartupList and AngelList . Thank you to TechCrunch , Business Insider , and ReadWriteWeb for describing these lists better than we could. Thank you to the well-known investors, successful entrepreneurs,..

» NYC BigApps Winners Announced
05/02/10 11:38 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
I've posted about the NYC BigApps contest a few times here . And you all helped me with my chore of judging all 85 apps. Thank you for that. Last night I walked up The Highline to IAC Headquarters to attend an event where the winners were ..

» Immigrant Startup Founders – Tell Us Your Story
05/02/10 05:55 from Feld Thoughts
As the Startup Visa initiative continues to pick up momentum, we are now collecting stories from immigrants who have either started or tried to start their company in the US.  We are interested in any aspect of your story and – while ..

» Trouble brewing?
05/02/10 03:21 from Cleantech Investing
Haven't had much time to go through the various recent cleantech IPO filings, and so haven't talked about them much.  Also just generally hoping they do well, for the sake of the overall industry. But in a meeting today someone put up..

» The Road to Recovery?
05/02/10 03:03 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
Doug Short has redone his graph of various economic downturns to match up the current market recovery against recoveries from other major market declines.

» Ken, I Thought You Said We Were Buying a Laundromat
05/02/10 01:41 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
An eye-opening excerpt from Andrew Cuomo's lawsuit against BofA for its Merrill Lynch acquisition: ...when BoA’s directors met Sunday, September 15 [2008] to approve the [Merrill] transaction, they thought they were going to buy a complete..

» Consumers Continue to Choose Credit Cards Over Mortgages
05/02/10 01:30 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
A new TransUnion study shows that the usual payment hierarchy of mortgages over other debts, like credit cards, remains reversed, with consumers paying down cards before worrying about mortgages. It augurs many more housing defaults ahead...

» London Real Estate Back to Defying Gravity
05/02/10 00:49 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
From a Brett Arends piece in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: London real estate has actually bounced off the bottom in the last nine months. Prices are now down a mere 9% or so from their 2007 peaks, according to data tracked by mortgage gia..

» U.S. Corners Global Centenarian Market
04/02/10 18:50 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
I found these three Worldmapper chloropleths striking. Remember, in this sort of map country sizes change depending on the relevant measured variable – in this case, population. First, the world’s population by country in 2002: Next, the w..

» Learn How Filtrbox Got A Yellow TechStars Shirt
04/02/10 18:44 from Feld Thoughts
Whenever a TechStars company is acquired, they get a yellow shirt with their number on the back.  Last month Fitrbox, a TechStars Boulder 2007 company, was acquired by Jive Software .  The yellow shirt presentation is in the shor..

» Peak Oil Supply vs Peak Oil Demand: 2020 vs 2010
04/02/10 18:30 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
We have two instructively conflicting views out today on peak oil supply vs peak oil demand. The estimable folks at TOD peg 2010 as peak supply, with perhaps 89mbpd; while BP’s Tony Hayward gave an interview to BBC Radio 4 today suggesting..

» The Gartner Magic Quadrant - a necessary evil in IT
04/02/10 18:11 from BeyondVC
Lately, I feel as if I have been spending an inordinate amount of time with my companies talking about marketing.  Related to this, one of my portfolio companies recently received a number of nice emails from the board related to its new p..

» Readings: Taleb, Treasuries, Moody’s, Quakes, etc.
04/02/10 17:47 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
Sovereign debt fears rattle investors ( Source ) US 30-year bond up a point in flight to quality ( Source ) Taleb Says ‘Every Human’ Should Short U.S. Treasuries ( Source ) Moody's warns on costs; forecast disappoints ( Source ) Summary of..

» Curt Schilling Earns (an Expensive) Harvard Business School MBA
04/02/10 14:54 from Seeing Both Sides
In his storied baseball career, Curt Schilling has rarely found himself at a loss for words.  So it was great fun to watch him sit speechless for an hour as Harvard Business School students dissected his entrepreneurial venture and some of..

» We Need More Female IT Leaders
04/02/10 14:11 from Feld Thoughts
Vivek Wadhwa has a strong article in BusinessWeek today titled Addressing the Dearth of Female Entrepreneurs .  He makes the argument that “ There are too few women running high-tech companies; that's too bad, considering evidence sho..

» Don't Take Angel Investments From VCs
03/02/10 22:42 from Burnhams Beat
The guys over at Venturehacks  have come up with an excellent idea to create a curated list of tech-focused angel investors .  While I fully support the project, I did notice that the list of “angels” includes a ..

» Launch: StartupList — a new way to reach angels
03/02/10 18:27 from Nivi
Yesterday, we launched AngelList , a curated list of angel investors, representing $80M going into early-stage startups this year . Today , we're launching a cool new way to get intros to these angels: StartupList . It's a weekly email we ..

» Launch: AngelList, a curated list of angel investors
02/02/10 16:05 from Nivi
I'm psyched to announce AngelList , a curated list of super high-quality angel investors. And how to reach them. Investors like Jeff Clavier , Dave McClure , Rob Hayes , Aaron Patzer , Brad Feld , and 50 other investors have already joined..

» Quirky and The Cone Of Silence
02/02/10 16:04 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
My family is tired of hearing me talk about "The Cone Of Silence". This is an electronics product I'd love to have. I am not sure if it can be built with the current state of noise canceling technology, but here is how it would work. The C..

» Be the CEO of Your Job
02/02/10 13:27 from Feld Thoughts
Sometimes a person says one sentence that just sticks with you and is so perfect that it defines a whole category of behavior.  Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, riffed on the phrase “be the CEO of your job” in a board meeting a year or ..

» When you’re raising money, the competition isn’t the competition
02/02/10 09:23 from Nivi
Simeon Simeonov : “You have to understand that you are not competing with an abstract notion of what a good investment is. You are competing with the other teams that saw the investor that week. “To an investor, it costs about ..

» Venture Capital and Age/Experience Discrimination
02/02/10 01:06 from Burnhams Beat
At the risk of being provocative, let me state a general and rather counter intuitive rule of Venture Capital: The more experienced and older and entrepreneur is, the harder it is to raise money for anything that isn’t directly ..

» Empowering Your Team
31/01/10 15:51 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
Mark Pincus , founder/CEO of our portfolio company Zynga , is interviewed in today's NY Times  on the topic of leadership. The part about empowering and scaling the team is really great. You can manage 50 people through the strength ..

» Burning Mercedes
31/01/10 14:05 from Feld Thoughts
Help me get my photo of Amy’s Burning Mercedes up on Fail Blog .  All you have to do is click through on the picture below and vote for it.  moar funny pictures And yes – that really is Amy’s old Mercedes on fire in our driveway...

» Do Patents Slow Down Innovation?
31/01/10 00:25 from Feld Thoughts
I had a very interesting meeting yesterday with an MIT Professor who I’ve known for a long time.  He is anti-software patent, as am I.  However, he suggested something I hadn’t really spent much time thinking about, namely that p..

» Massachusetts’ big energy efficiency news, and some thoughts on FITs
30/01/10 01:50 from Cleantech Investing
Big news today in the state of Massachusetts, where state officials announced a plan to pour $2.2B into energy efficiency measures , including a target of tripling the number of home energy audits, etc.  On a per capita basis, at leas..

» Is "Value Added Investor" An Oxymoron?
29/01/10 17:29 from VentureBlog
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." If the only thing you do as an investor..

» Most inspiring speech ever
29/01/10 16:32 from Nivi
Actually two dueling inspirational speeches. Very NSFW — contains, as they say, “strong” language. From the awesome The Thick of It . Thanks to Fred Destin for suggesting we post some lighter fare once-in-a-while. And see why M..

» Video Interview: We Suck Less
29/01/10 03:42 from Feld Thoughts
Steve Bell of Startup Trek came to Boulder about a month ago and did an interview with a bunch of Boulder people, including me .  Following is part one (12 minutes) of the interview where I talk some about my history, my first company..

» When to fire your co-founders
28/01/10 16:27 from Nivi
Thanks to FastIgnite , a startup advisory firm, for sponsoring Venture Hacks this week. This post is by Simeon Simeonov , the firm's founder and CEO (and formerly a partner at Polaris Ventures ). If you like it, check out Sim's blog and tw..

» The Monster In Your Head
28/01/10 11:06 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
I've written before about CEO coaches. I'm a big fan of the work they do and how they can help entrepreneurs work on things that are holding them back from being the best leaders they can be. There are a bunch of CEO coaches I can recommen..

» A Lost Generation of Entrepreneurs?
27/01/10 10:51 from Seeing Both Sides
I've been worrying lately that we are suffering from a lost generation of entrepreneurs. That was my first reaction when I read what Sequoia's Doug Leone said a few weeks ago about  innovation and age at a recent talk with MIT Sloan studen..

» 10 skills I look for before writing a check, Part 3: Detail Orientation, Competitiveness, Decisiveness
26/01/10 16:00 from Nivi
This post is by Mark Suster , a serial entrepreneur turned VC at GRP Partners. If you like it, check out Mark’s startup advice blog and his tweets @ msuster . And if you want an intro to Mark, send me an email. I’ll put you in touch if the..

» A Scorecard For Boston’s Innovation Economy
26/01/10 15:19 from Feld Thoughts
Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know Bill Warner through my work with the Boston program of TechStars.  Bill was a well known entrepreneur when I lived in Boston between 1983 and 1995 – he’d founded Avid which is one of t..

» Comments of the week: Legal fees, financial projections, and fit
25/01/10 20:12 from Nivi
We're determined to have the best comment section of any blog the universe. Comments that are really worth reading. One of the tactics we use to improve comments is tweeting about the good ones. Another tactic is highlighting good comments..

» It’s So Hard When Contemplated In Advance And So Easy When You Do It
25/01/10 16:39 from Feld Thoughts
I heard this phrase at about 75 minutes into my run this morning.  It’s from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , a book I’ve read a half dozen times over the years.  I decided to listen to it on my iPhone while training f..

» Yep, that’s right…
25/01/10 14:18 from Cleantech Investing
... a $350M Series B for Project Better Place .  At a pre-money of $900M.  And bear in mind, this doesn't include additional financings that have gone into the company's regional subsidiaries, such as in Israel and Australia. Thi..

» Procrastinating On A Sunday Afternoon
24/01/10 19:47 from Feld Thoughts
While the rest of the US is watching football, I thought I’d sit quietly at my house and catch up on some writing, most notably what David Cohen, Entrepreneur Magazine, and a few other special people are waiting for from me.  However, befo..

» Leaders
24/01/10 15:14 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
Yesterday I blogged about  girls basketball and role models . Today I'm going to blog about football coaches and leaders. I guess I've got sports on my brain this weekend ( for good reason ). The NY Times has a nice  front page..

» Role Models
23/01/10 17:23 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
 My 16 year old daughter (in the orange sweater with a player on her lap in the photo) and her friend got up at 9:15am this morning, about three hours earlier than they'd ordinarily get up on a saturday morning, and headed over to th..

» Launch: Sponsor Posts — ads that rule
23/01/10 16:03 from Nivi
Over the last few months, we've built and tested a new “ad” format on Venture Hacks that I really like. I'm writing this post to launch it ( voila ), describe the ads, and pitch new sponsors. The ads You've already seen the ads..

» Market positioning for startups - focus, focus, focus
22/01/10 17:43 from BeyondVC
I was on a call yesterday with an inspired and talented management team.  As we walked through the deck, one point particularly struck me as I listened to their well-honed pitch.  The company was trying to boil the ocean and do everything ..

» The Venture Diet Is Working
22/01/10 13:36 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
The 2009 data on venture capital investments is out now. PWC, along with its partners the NVCA and Thomson Reuters, report that VCs invested $17.7bn in 2009 in the " Money Tree Report ." I think that's a pretty healthy number. I've written..

» Facebook, Twitter and P&G
22/01/10 10:07 from VentureBlog
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 in the Bay Area to discuss how P&G might..

» Best wishes to Ray Anderson
22/01/10 06:29 from Cleantech Investing
Am en route back to Boston from the Clean Tech Investor Summit , which took place in an incredibly soggy Palm Springs, necessitating a lot of diverted and canceled flights. Despite the problems participants had getting to and from the even..

» NewsGator Acquires Tomoye
21/01/10 15:00 from Feld Thoughts
My friends at NewsGator had a great 2009 – enterprise social computing came into its own and they were at the front of the pack.  If an organization uses SharePoint and is interested in social computing, NewsGator Social Sites is a mu..

» Letters to My Dad
21/01/10 06:46 from Feld Thoughts
I recently turned 44.  As I was driving in to the office the other day, I was talking to my dad and we were reminiscing about something.  He’s one of my closest friends and I’ve learned such an amazing amount from him over my 44 ..

» Major change in the cleantech VC industry… and over-experienced investors?
20/01/10 15:53 from Cleantech Investing
We're going to look back upon 2010 as a time of major change in the cleantech venture industry. I haven't heard yet of many established specialized cleantech venture firms scaling back, but it will happen, starting this year.  Certain..

» Boxee Payments
20/01/10 15:07 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
Well I'm stuck at the Virgin America terminal at JFK this morning. Due to the stormy weather today in SF, my flight has been pushed back by three hours. Fortunately, I've got my laptop, wifi, my sleeper hoodie with headphones cranking,..

» Why You Should Start A Company In NYC
20/01/10 11:25 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
Fast Company is doing a five part series on startup hubs outside of Silicon Valley. Part one was Boulder, Colorado , featuring my friend Brad Feld . I know there is a piece coming on Seattle and two other cities that I can't recall right n..

» The Tug Of War Between M&A and VC
19/01/10 11:02 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
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 inte..

» VC Bloggers -- No Rest for the Wicked
19/01/10 09:29 from VentureBlog
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 the TED conference -- blog about it. Liquida..

» The Five Domains of High Performance
19/01/10 00:55 from Seeing Both Sides
I'm pleased to have a guest blog post by Kevin Oakes, CEO of my portfolio company i4cp (the Institute for Corporate Productivity) and a leading thinker in leadership and high performance. Pick a leader - any successful leader. Then sea..

» Twitter.com vs The Twitter Ecosystem
18/01/10 11:54 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
John Borthwick , co-founder of Betaworks , parent company to bit.ly, twitterfeed, tweetdeck, chartbeat, and many other interesting web services, posted yesterday on " Ongoing tracking of the real time web … "  Through these various B..

» Seven Lessons I've Learned Organizing Events
15/01/10 19:12 from Genuine VC
For the past five years, I’ve been organizing a regular event here in Boston called the Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one ..

» Social Status For Social Good
15/01/10 11:19 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
Status is a powerful motivator in social systems. People go crazy over their follower counts on Twitter, or number of friends or business contacts in Facebook and LinkedIn. So it makes sense that social status can be leveraged for social g..

» When to ramp sales
14/01/10 14:48 from BeyondVC
While 2009 was a tough year, I must say that it was nice to see a number of our portfolio companies have blow out 4th quarters for bookings and growth.  Despite that, I am still taking a cautiously optimistic approach to 2010.  There are s..

» Why Invest in oneforty and the Real-Time Web?
14/01/10 14:40 from Seeing Both Sides
Today's announcement of our investment in oneforty   is a useful prompt to talk about why I'm a big believer (and now investor) in the real-time Web. The real-time Web (i.e., the overwhelming stream of instant, free flowing information ava..

» The Founder Factor
14/01/10 14:00 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
I've long noticed that the most innovative, decisive, and risk taking companies are led by founders or at a minimum have their founders actively engaged in all key strategic decisions. There are many examples. One could point to Richard Br..

» Cleantech VCs still heart capital intensity
13/01/10 14:44 from Cleantech Investing
First of all, maybe take a minute today to give to the relief efforts in Haiti.  The US State Department is recommending the Red Cross ... -------------------------------------------- Kanellos of GTM posted what I think is one of the ..

» The Protocol Society
12/01/10 22:42 from Will Price
When Alabama and Nick Sabean won the BCS National Championship, ESPN called the win the revenge of the grinder.  The recap story noted that Nick Sabean focuses on process and the "Alabama system." That is not to say that winning is not..

» Would AT&T or Comcast Have Created Google?
12/01/10 10:52 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
The answer to that question is no. They had their chances. In the early days of the Internet, when dial-up was king, the telco companies were in the driver's seat. They had the customer relationships. They had the on-ramp to the Internet. ..

» Why We Need An Independent Invention Defense
12/01/10 03:00 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
My partner Brad wrote  an impassioned plea for an "Independent Invention Defense"  for patent infringement claims. He starts his post with this observation. Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. Is it..

» The trickle-down effect
11/01/10 15:39 from Cleantech Investing
2010 may be looking up economically (although I'm personally feeling like we're headed for a double-dip, but let's stay optimistic), and yet 2010 may not be as happy a fundraising environment for cleantech startups as many would hope. Why?..

» CES: 3 Things to Know About 3DTV
11/01/10 05:44 from Technik
Everywhere you looked at CES this year was filled with the promise of 3D. Sony made a huge commitment to 3D, betting the company it seems. I think they will lose the bet. 3DTV is not ready for primetime: The...

» Where Have All The Good Mentors Gone (from Boston)?
11/01/10 02:17 from Seeing Both Sides
I confess to being a Shrek fan. My kids made me (well, sort of) buy the music CD to Shrek 2 and my favorite song on that CD is the Jennifer Saunders song - "Holding Out For A Hero".  When they were little we would play it over and over aga..

» Boxee Beta and Bookmarklet
08/01/10 11:04 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
Our portfolio company Boxee has been having a great CES. First they generated a ton of buzz with this cool TV remote with a full QWERTY keyboard .   But that was just the warmup to the big announcement yesterday in which they release..

» Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)
07/01/10 22:51 from Genuine VC
Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M . This startup had a little technology called AdSense which allowed for the presentation of contextually relevant ads on a set of distributed publisher sites. Obviously thi..

» Cleantech Investing reader predictions for 2010
07/01/10 20:44 from Cleantech Investing
Quick reminder:  If you've been missing the dealflow notices that used to appear on this column, they've moved over to Twitter so they can be timelier (and a lot less work). Anyways, many thanks to all the readers who participated in ..

» Plant More Seeds vs Tending The Crop
07/01/10 14:07 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
One of the questions facing venture capitalists in the internet/web sector is how big a portfolio is optimal. The economics of internet/web startups means the capital requirements for each investment are often lower and the best ones get p..

» Why Do VCs Blog (and Tweet)?
06/01/10 03:23 from Seeing Both Sides
For decades, the venture capital industry was like a Yale Secret Society - very clubby, discrete and opaque.  VCs had all the power in the VC-entrepreneur equation, and entrepreneurs had to work hard to decode the mysterious VC process to ..

» Responding to Peter Hebert
05/01/10 21:20 from Cleantech Investing
Don't forget:  Take the 2010 Cleantech Investor readers' survey .  I'm going to close it over the next day or so, we've plenty of good responses to work with, but the more the merrier. In case you missed it, among all the other V..

» Majority of both Drivers and VCs are Above Average
05/01/10 15:35 from Genuine VC
Whenever I am navigating through the notorious Boston traffic, I am often reminded of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority. That is, the “above average effect,” which “causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and to und..

» The Google Phone
05/01/10 11:49 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
In mid December as holiday gifts and cards were arriving daily in our office, I received a gift from Google. It was a Nexus One. I have been using it since that day as my primary phone. In the box was a note from Google asking me to keep q..

» How lawmakers are creating capital gaps
04/01/10 14:00 from Cleantech Investing
Happy new year, everyone!  If you haven't yet done the readers' prediction survey, please click here and do so , it'll take all of 30 seconds.  Lots of good responses so far... So at midnight on the 31st, the U.S.'s $1/gallon bio..

» Judging NYC BigApps
04/01/10 12:18 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
NYC is running an app developer contest in partnership with ChallengePost and Rackspace . It is called NYC Big Apps . I blogged about this back in early October when Mayor Bloomberg announced the competition and noted that I am one of the ..

» Areas Of Interest
02/01/10 15:05 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
A few days ago, I exchanged emails with a journalist friend. She said the following, "I'm just wondering which sectors/investment areas/types of start-ups you think will be exciting investments in 2010, and which you're staying away from b..

» How to Succeed
02/01/10 01:20 from A Venture Forth
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: ..

» First look at Q4: What happened??
31/12/09 14:25 from Cleantech Investing
Over twenty participants already in the 2010 CI Readers' Prediction survey, in just a few hours after launching.  If you haven't taken the survey yet, click here to do so .  It's only a couple of quick questions.   The first..

» 2009 Redux
30/12/09 20:00 from Will Price
Year-end is a natural time for reflection on events of the past year and a time to plan goals for the year to come. As I think back on 2009, I am struck by a few observations. The year began with the macro overhang of the economy and the re..

» 2010 CI readers’ predictions
30/12/09 18:05 from Cleantech Investing
Okay, gang, you seen my predictions for next year , and you've seen how we all did last year .  Now it's time to make your own predictions about 2010. Click here to take a very brief survey, to share your opinion on the new year. ..

» Thinking About Etsy In The San Telmo Markets
30/12/09 11:04 from A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
The streets of the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires turn into a big outdoor market on sundays. Our family spent sunday afternoon there this past weekend. As I strolled around, I could not help but think of Etsy , what it has become a..