One of the most common criticisms of VC investors making seed investments is something that has become known Read More
The VC seed investor signaling problem
Character Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from investors Leadership Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business
What a CEO does
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at Read More
Character Entrepreneurship from investors Leadership Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business
The CEO mentor and coach
I’ve written about this topic before. I think many people with the ambition and the opportunity can become Read More
Business models/plans Entrepreneurship Failures/challenges from investors How to build a product Lessons and advice
What happened to Yahoo and Alta Vista?
Paul Graham of Ycombinator wrote an excellent blog on “What happened to Yahoo?“. (YHOO) It reminded me of Read More
Building revenue Business models/plans Financial and Legal from investors Lessons and advice Market sizing
Should you charge more for your product?
My partner Seth Levine has an outstanding post up today about the freemium model. It’s titled Pricing models, the Read More
The Freemium business model is normal for consumer applications, but can it work for enterprise software? Freemium usually Read More
Business models/plans from investors Lessons and advice Managing a business Marketing Measurement/analysis Metrics Milestones
How to estimate lifetime value
In many businesses, repeat purchase behavior is a key driver of value. Many companies track percent of repeat Read More
A lot of the startups that have quickly reached millions in monthly revenue rely on the arbitrage of Read More
Character Entrepreneurship from investors Leadership Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business
10 ways to be your own boss
The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months Read More
One of the most fundamental concepts in finance is that risk and return are correlated. We touched on Read More
Over this weekend, I celebrated my tenth anniversary as a venture capitalist. When I joined August Capital 10 Read More
Angel Investors are a special breed. They take on the riskiest investments at the earliest stage where VCs Read More
One of my blog readers – Boaz Fletcher – sent me an awesome video this morning from RSA Read More
from investors How to build a product Leadership Lessons and advice Managing a business Team building
The yin and yang of product and engineering
For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. When I do Read More
Entertainment and Digital Media from investors Internet Social Media Lessons and advice Social media User experience
Engagement in social games
On Friday, I moderated a panel at the social gaming summit featuring speakers from Zynga, Playdom, Playfish and Read More