CB Insights published this report on the relatively performance of seed VC’s and non seed VC’s.  It’s pretty interesting. http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/seed-venture-capital-funds Some quick thoughts. 1. There is a danger in looking at averages.  Venture tends to be a game of asymmetric outcomes, and it’s not just the companies, but also the investors in those companies.  In [...]

Every now and then, I get a big reminder of just how helpful it is for entrepreneurs to have co-founders. Of course, having the wrong co-founders is really damaging. Also, there are many successful founders who have done great without a meaningful co-founder. But for the most part, I tend to agree that the best [...]

The NY Techstars program is a few months away.  The latest SeedCamp class just swung by Boston earlier this week.  And Boston’s Techstars class started this past Monday.  I know some of the teams, and have met some of the founders briefly.  It’s an exciting class! Techstars and many other accelerators are “mentorship driven”.  This means [...]

Early stage companies are often refining their stories or narratives.  It’s important for lots of reasons – inspiring team members, recruiting, creating focus, getting effective press, fundraising, etc. From a fundraising perspective, one of the challenges of telling one’s story is that as an early stage company, you are by definition very very small, but [...]

I saw this recent list published by PrivCo today, and I couldn’t stop myself from writing a quick post. It’s actually a teaser report for readers to go purchase the full report and underlying data. I have to say, DO NOT BUY this report. Even if the data is accurate, the marketing is so misleading [...]