I remember early on in my VC career, I chatted with an entrepreneur turned VC who remarked “as an entrepreneur, time is your enemy.  As a VC, time is your friend.” What I think some VC’s mean when they say […]

This is my second post in my product leadership series. Today I’m chatting with Ben Foster, VP product at Opower. For those who don’t know the company, Opower is a fast growing energy efficiency software company that helps utilitiesmotivate consumers to reduce […]

VC’s always talk about the “deals” they have done.  The word is thrownaround like crazy and is ingrained into the VC vocabulary (deal flow,deal pipeline, my deals etc). I think “deal” is one of the ugliest words in the business. […]

I’m at a small conference in New York of early stage investors.  One of the panels was on alternative early stage models.  Tom Keller from TechStars was speaking, and there were some grilling from the audience about the ability for a program like this […]

I’ve been a little slow writing up my most recent product leadership interviews, but will post my next two soon. I’m also thinking about other ways to address the important topic of product leadership.  So I’m asking for feedback. What […]

bijan sabet: A guest post about joining a startup I like that more folks are doing guest posts these days.  There’s so much knowledge/wisdom out there to share! I’ve never had a guest post on my blog before. But I’m […]

Valuations in venture backed companies seem to be a mystery to most.Even in the past 18 months, when it was close to impossible to raisemoney, we’ve seen valuations in early stage companies that caused alot of headscratching (Square, Foursquare, Groupon, […]

For date night last night, Nancy humored me and took me to the driving range. I don’t golf very much these days since having a daughter and starting my own thing. But it was a lot of fun. The trip […]

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This is the first post in a series of interviews on Product Leadership.  I’m very pleased to kick this series off with an interview of Max Ventilla at Google.  Max was a co-founder of Aardvark, a social search company backed […]