I was reflecting on this post last week about the state of consumer web in Boston and shared a few of my thoughts in the comments.  It got me thinking about this past year, specifically around consumer tech in Boston. […]

I had a meeting this week with a friend of a friend who was interested in getting into the Venture Capital Business.  I have a few of these meetings every year, usually around the time that grad school students are […]

I was very excited a few months ago to hear that a bunch of old friends and colleagues had banded together to form Mucker Labs in Los Angeles.  There has been a surge of interesting activity in that region, and […]

I once showed a company to an investor for an investment we were syndicating.  This investor loved the team and thought the solution they were building was compelling.  Ultimately, this firm passed because they couldn’t get comfortable with the “market […]

There was a lot of chatter last week about the “Series A Crunch”. It started with this post and has stirred a bunch of commentary. The gist of the story is that there has been a significant increase in seed […]

It’s been a few weeks on my first post on “Distruption“, so I thought it was time to do my second installment of the Startup Jargon Series. This time, I’m going to discuss the concept of the PIVOT. I had […]

I watched Moneyball last night.  Fun movie, but as is usually the case, the book was better. I did enjoy watching their depiction of the old school scouts talking about the different players they were evaluating. Hilarious stuff: “A guy […]

I’m going to do a new blog series on “Startup Jargon”.  There are some words that I hear all the time as a VC – both spoken by fellow investors and by entrepreneurs.  They are said so often that they […]

I haven’t blogged that consistently the last few weeks. It’s probably the new baby, but I’ve had a hard time formulating a complete enough thoughts for a full post. So I’ll just share a few memes that I have going […]

Thinking out loud a bit about P2P Car Sharing vs. ZipCar There have been three companies now that have announced funding from excellent investors pursuing a P2P car sharing model.  They include RelayRides, GetAround, and Wheelz (and there are many others […]