Yes, I do realize that the concept of mobile blogging (moblogging) has been around for a while now. But one important aspect really didn’t hit me until during a few recent conversations here at Masthead and after reading this NYT […]

A friend of mine is currently in the process of bootstrapping to start an ad-supported internet content business. However, she doesn’t have very much seed capital to fund the initial development of the basic functionality of the product, and is […]

All VC firms are all different. As I wrote about in a previous post, every one has a different process for evaluating a potential new deal. In addition, venture firms all have a different magic number for how much capital […]

Last week, Nivi launched an RSS feed entitled “The VC Channel.” It is an aggregation of a number of VC bloggers’ RSS feeds (disclosure: including my own). In his words, “The VC Channel is for the person who wants to […]

I was recently chatting with a friend of mine about a well respected technology veteran whom we both mutually know. This executive has been considering joining the board of a venture backed company that is currently doing very well and […]

You’ve been carrying around your phone for a number of years now. What have you done with it, really? Used it like a regular phone, like everyone has. You call people. Maybe in the past couple of years you have […]

My post last week, “VCs and Angels, Where are the Angel Bloggers?” generated quite a bit of interest and notable discussion. According to my Feedburner stats, more of my readers (on a percentage basis) clicked-through this entry than any other […]

It’s been a week since the announcement of the $620M acquisition of Shopping.com by eBay. And now that the dust has settled, I wanted to offer my quick thoughts on why eBay made this move. Businessweek says it’s to relieve […]

Marc Goldberg wonders, “Is the bubble back?” While it is always difficult to discern the size of a storm from the inside, we should consider a few questions: Are venture deal median prices increasing? Yes. Are the newspapers filled with […]

“What is your process?” It’s an easy question to ask, but only a few entrepreneurs do. Allen Morgan has written a great series of posts advising entrepreneur’s on their first meeting with a VC. And as he explains, “The goal […]