Today’s buzz surrounds the announcement that of Colin Powell becoming a Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers strategic limited partner. So is there a story here beyond the preeminent venture firm connecting with preeminent leader? Is it that the blurring of […]

Usually, I post well thought-out viewpoints, but today I’m going to express three ideas that I’ve just been mulling over in my head. The first originated from Nivi’s post in which he conjectures “RSS is the TCP/IP packet of Web […]

Earlier this week, I had lunch with a VC friend of mine, and the subject of blogging came up. He told me that nobody at his firm blogs, not because they aren’t aware and “plugged in” to the phenomenon, but […]

Two weeks ago, I wrote was has turned into my most commented on post to date, An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. I intended this entry to highlight a unique perspective on the role of information in the […]

Consider a piece of software that allows you to fix, manage, and store your photos. Better yet – you can assign “tags” to each of your pictures with as many keywords that you want, which allows you to find, sort, […]

In the context of reviewing Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0, John Battelle gripes, “But, on the other hand, it’s a pain in the ass to keep creating social networks, maintaining groups, tagging, sharing, etc. It’s a habit I’m not sure the masses […]

Last week I wrote a post entitled “Know Your VC’s Magic Number” in which I said, “At the heart of the issue is that different VCs are managing different sized funds – so the appetite for how much capital they […]

With the number of VCs who blog increasing, the amount of valuable information available is growing as well. Most of the VC blog content available possesses a time-based relevancy component to it. And that’s one reason that blogs are so […]

Historically, the U.S. mobile carriers have taken a “walled-garden” approach to content. They have provided content providers with a closed-portal system in which nearly everything that consumers can purchase and use on their phones is distributed exclusively through their own […]

Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek laments in the context of the Grokster vs. MGM case, “It takes guts to be a startup in the music sharing business these days… there are also a lot of pitfalls.” Indeed, the legal copyright risks […]