I got this question on a panel a few weeks ago: “I heard that company X raised money from several good VC’s.  How is that possible given that the company isn’t making any money and doesn’t have any business model?” […]

I was on a panel yesterday on VC fundraising. One audience member asked how early one should start talking to VCs, and whether it made sense to meet with VC’s at all before raising money. My friend Jeff Bussgang suggested […]

Note: This is a guest blog post by David Knox.  David is a partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures, the investment arm of Rockfish Interactive, a leading digital agency focused on brand and consumer marketing.  David previously spent 7 years at […]

One of the powerful elements of the internet is the amazing efficiency through which commerce, advertising, and information flow can be facilitated. As a result, many successful companies on the web have been ones that have significantly shrunk markets. Josh […]

A few months ago, I had breakfast with a prominent venture capitalist about the past and future of the venture business.  He was very helpful and complimentary about what we are doing at NextView, except for one thing. At that […]

Was thinking about this today, so thought I’d repost once again.  Love it. These remarks are from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos commencement speech to Princeton’s Class of 2010, delivered on May 30, 2010.  As a kid, I spent my summers with […]

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 […]

I’m giving WordPress another try. There were too many features that I wanted from Tumblr that weren’t supported, and I wanted to see what better analytics I might get from WordPress (and compare them to my Google Analytics, which I […]

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 […]

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 […]