It’s that time of year when many of us reflect on the year behind us and make resolutions for the year ahead. This has been a very interesting year for me personally. I joined two terrific partners to start something […]

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DukeChapel (Taken with instagram)

I’ve heard from a few folks that there are those who perceive my recent blog posts to be very negative ones.  That was not the spirit behind them at all.  I’m sorry if I gave off that impression. When it […]

The most common slides in investor pitches is the 2×2 market/competitor matrix.  There are many of them – you probably have one in your own investor deck. Almost all 2×2’s look more or less the same.  The company’s logo appears […]

A VC: Employee Equity: How Much? Wow, what a great summary of a process to determine employee equity.  

I was at a dinner last night with folks from local angel groups and other seed stage investors in Boston. There were a few jokes about how “this isn’t Angelgate”.  But honestly, no one would ever mistake it for that […]

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Experience – Thoughts From Ben Siscovick’s Post Ben Siscovick at IA wrote a thoughtful post on the value of Experience.  It stemmed from his recent conversation with Fred Wilson.  It’s a good and thoughtful post that I recommend reading, especially […]