(follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bussgang) A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson posted a presentation he delivered on What Makes the NYC Start-Up Scene Special. I was inspired to deliver a similar presentation today to a group of Harvard Business... Full story...
I've been worrying lately that we are suffering from a lost generation of entrepreneurs. That was my first reaction when I read what Sequoia's Doug Leone said a few weeks ago about innovation and age at a recent talk with.
I'm pleased to have a guest blog post by Kevin Oakes, CEO of my portfolio company i4cp (the Institute for Corporate Productivity) and a leading thinker in leadership and high performance.
Today's announcement of our investment in oneforty is a useful prompt to talk about why I'm a big believer (and now investor) in the real-time Web.
I confess to being a Shrek fan. My kids made me (well, sort of) buy the music CD to Shrek 2 and my favorite song on that CD is the Jennifer Saunders song - "Holding Out For A Hero".
For decades, the venture capital industry was like a Yale Secret Society - very clubby, discrete and opaque.
A lot has been written in the last week about the scandal at Canopy Financial, a venture-backed, high-flying start-up that attracted $75 million in capital at increasingly higher prices from top-tier firms, only to come crashing down in a dust.
I've been blogging for five years about the start-up, innovation economy and I almost never write about politics.
Here's the video from the talk I gave at HBS on what makes the Boston start-up scene special.
(follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bussgang) A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson posted a presentation he delivered on What Makes the NYC Start-Up Scene Special.
I find the preponderance of males in VC an annoying and stubborn phenomenon. When I first entered the start-up game as an entrepreneur in the mid 1990s, I didn't think much of the "VC gender gap" as there were plenty.