I went down to Washington, DC yesterday to participate in an event that celebrated the 25th anniversary of .
Yesterday's WSJ had an interesting piece about Alacra's new Pulse Pro offering. For those that don't know, I invested in Alacra in 1999 via Flatiron Partners and have been on its board ever since.
We're getting ready to move and it's time to figure out the phone thing again. This will be the fourth phone decision our family is making in the past eleven years.
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about one of the most important things in business, the profit and loss statement (also known as the P&L).
I cringed when I used the "2.0" term in the headline of this post, but I think it's useful. In the past year, when people ask me what I think is interesting in web technology, I often talk about emerging.
The Gotham Gal and I don't normally keep much cash in the bank. We like a portfolio of tax free municipal bonds for our cash that is not invested in venture deals, private companies, real estate, and the like.
Our portfolio company Foursquare turned one year old yesterday. They posted about their birthday on the company blog.
Sorry for the inside baseball title, this post is not about net exercising options or warrants. It is about an exercise I've been going through since the beginning of the year.
Mark Suster just keeps putting out great stuff on his blog. Last night he posted about the tricky issue of transitioning from one job to another.
I really like how Tumblr publishes some key stats publicly every month in their own stylized dashboard.
I'm making up the curriculum for MBA Mondays on the fly. The end game is to lay out how to look a businesses, value it, and invest in it.
A couple weeks ago I went down to Miami for Future of Web Apps (FOWA). It was a great event and I highly recommend it to web developers and entrepreneurs.
There's been a battle going on between the "broadcast" TV networks and the cable networks over something called "retransmission fees.
InSITE is a group of business and law school students from Columbia and NYU who provide free consulting services to startup companies.
Mark Suster, who writes the best VC blog out there right now, has a post about sitting on panels. He gives the following advice: Educate Entertain Discuss and Debate (have a dialog) Build Awareness of your firm/company/brand Make connections with.
There was a lot of noise in VC/startup land earlier this week about the Series Seed documents that can be used to close a seed round.
Charlie O'Donnell asked me last week asked me about lessons I learned on my first venture capital investment.
Yet another MBA Monday topic comes from the comments of last week's post. This series is turning into a conversation which makes me very pleased.
This past friday afternoon, I joined David Karp, founder/CEO of Tumblr, Dennis Crowley, founder/CEO of Foursquare, Aaron Earls of New Media Strategies, and Chris Grosso of NBCU at the MBA Media and Entertainment Conference to talk about social media.
I posted about The Blue Sweater recently and said: I have always believed in the power of entrepreneurs and for profit initiatives to change the world.