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Five not-so-glamorous roles of the Start-up CEO
Tech company founders are typically product centric visionaries. Saddling a founder with the real-world duties of a growth company CEO is actually a good way to slow a company down. It is possible to… more →
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Crowdsourcing Early-Stage VC
wrote 2 months ago: The social, consumer-facing web created by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and hundreds of other companie … more →
Personal Responsibility, Civic Duty and the US Entrepreneurship Model
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wrote 11 months ago: By Lauren A. Burnhill, @LaurenOPV Bootstrap your start-up business! Max out your credit cards, cash … more →
Five not-so-glamorous roles of the Start-up CEO
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wrote 1 year ago: Tech company founders are typically product centric visionaries. Saddling a founder with the real-wo … more →
AssureRx wins Luis Villalobos Award - Shameless Portfolio Company Promotion
wrote 1 year ago: Today was a great day for our portfolio company AssureRx. The company won the 2012 Luis Villalobos … more →
Build a Board You Don't Deserve - For Entrepreneurs
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wrote 1 year ago: Recently, while sitting in a board meeting, I realized the answer to a question I often get: … more →
What "great team" really means (Part III - Intangibles)
wrote 1 year ago: The book Island of the Lost describes the trials of different groups shipwrecked on Auckland Island … more →
Accelerator Envy
wrote 1 year ago: Twenty years ago there were no accelerators, no place where good ideas got hands-on attention from m … more →
What "great team" really means (Part II - Software/Business Applications)
wrote 1 year ago: We covered building the unique elements of a bioscience team in the last post. Now we will look at … more →
What "great team" Really Means (Part I, Bioscience)
wrote 1 year ago: Early stage technology investors always talk about the importance of a great team, how they invest i … more →
Characteristic of Good Seed Stage Founders
wrote 2 years ago: As early stage deal flow increases across the country entrepreneurs face a more difficult task in br … more →
New year, better year?
wrote 3 years ago: Coming out of what has been a very rough 6 quarters of early stage and broader economic activity, fr … more →
Understanding the Early Stages of Financing for Your Startup
wrote 3 years ago: Last week’s blog covered the different funding options that exist for startup businesses. In this bl … more →
Paying to pitch (part II)...
wrote 3 years ago: Last week I posted on pay-to-pitch venture forums, of which I’m not a fan. But many angel gro … more →
Paying to pitch...
wrote 3 years ago: One complaint I hear from entrepreneurs about is having to pay an angel group or venture event to ma … more →
Treading water...
wrote 3 years ago: Most of the outside capital taken in from Sept 2008 to the middle of 2009 has generated little in en … more →
Exit Fixation
wrote 3 years ago: I spent some time over the last week thinking about exits and how the world has changed in the last … more →
Shark Tank - How not to raise money...
wrote 3 years ago: I had heard about the show “Shark Tank” from someone last week, and my kids were also ba … more →
Real Entrepreneurs Wanted
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wrote 3 years ago: There is a great post on Growthology that raises more questions than I can answer in one post (thank … more →
Fenwick & West Venture Survey
wrote 3 years ago: The consensus in the venture industry is that we are in for a contraction of funds and investments i … more →
