My friend David Balter wrote an excellent piece for Inc Magazine about his leadership at BzzAgent and how his hubris nearly sunk the company. It’s an awesome piece that’s worth reading. To continue to spur on the discussion that came out of his article, he launched the Humility Imperative which is a fun, crowdsourced blog and [...]

Given that small institutional seed rounds are becoming more and more common, I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on how to best communicate with investors.  After raising this sort of round, it’s usually the first time an entrepreneur has to think about putting some structure of investor updates and communications.  These aren’t [...]

I was having dinner last night with someone that has been in the financial services industry for the last 8 years.   He made a comment that I completely agree with. He remarked that many people go in his field (and others like it) thinking that it would be the “safe and stable” option.  But [...]

I reblogged an awesome post last week about how non-technical founders need to step thinking about “finding” a technical co-founder and “earning” a technical co-founder. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and talking to Jason Jacobs at RunKeeper this afternoon, I realized that there is another equally important issue that gets overlooked in this discussion. Too [...]

I’ve been using this slightly chauvinistic metaphor a fair bit recently, so please forgive me It’s always interesting to me to watch how entrepreneurs evaluate VC investors.  If you are in the luxurious position to be able to choose your investors, I really recommend going through the extra couple days of work that that would [...]