I reblogged an awesome post last week about how non-technical founders need to step thinking about “finding” a technical co-founder and “earning” a technical co-founder. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and talking to Jason Jacobs at RunKeeper this afternoon, I […]

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 previously wrote a To-Do list for new entrepreneurs arriving in Boston.  It included a bunch of folks to follow on twitter and on their blogs, events to go to, and companies to get familiar with. I’d like to add […]

VC’s often ask entrepreneurs of early stage companies questions that they can’t realistically answer.  For example: 1. What’s the cost of customer acquisition? (most entrepreneurs have no clue.  Plus, even with early data, this answer can change radically with scale) […]

Fall is upon us (although it feels like winter) and for Boston, that means a new wave of folks who are arriving here for studies or new career opportunities. When I moved to Boston from Silicon Valley in 2005, I […]