Philanthropic Giving vs. Venture Capital

Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices, Venture Capital | 3 Comments »

In my last post, I discussed strategy for charitable giving and promised to add some thoughts on how you can be very strategic about it. Philanthropic giving is much like venture ... Read more..

Your Silent Partner

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Research | No Comments »

Yesterday I read Fred Wilson's post titled "Streaming Kills Piracy" and I completely agree with the point he makes. However, there is one thing (at least here in Ontario) that ... Read more..

Power Equations

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Venture Capital | 2 Comments »

Recently I was asked to speak at a TechAlliance / Ernst & Young event in London, Ontario about valuations. I was speaking after Bill Armitage who was clear and understandable ... Read more..

Advertising, Where did you go?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Research | No Comments »

This morning I read about the decision by Condé Nast to shutdown Portfolio magazine. It led me to the Mediaweek Magazine Monitor Master List, which then got me thinking about ... Read more..

Application Development vs. User Apathy

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices | No Comments »

Build something that solves a real problem, make it easy, and people will want to use it. Build something that you think is "cool" and....well, who knows what will happen. ... Read more..

Top Reasons for Entering the Deadpool

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Research | No Comments »

In my last post, What's in the Deadpool?, I listed the various types of companies that had entered the TechCrunch deadpool from 2007 to the present. Now let's take a ... Read more..

Capital Conservation vs. Business Priorities

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 4 Comments »

By now most everyone, including yours truly, has seen the Sequoia 56 slide missive on the current state of the VC market: R.I.P Good Times And you probably have seen: Ron Conway: ... Read more..

What’s in the Deadpool?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Research | 4 Comments »

If you read TechCrunch with some regularity then you've probably come across the deadpool at some point. The deadpool is the tag TechCrunch gives companies when they have either closed ... Read more..

Exits

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 1 Comment »

Fred Wilson recently wrote a series of posts detailing the economics of a Venture Capital Fund (Economics, Gross and Net Returns, When One Deal Returns The Fund, Allocating Follow-On Capital). ... Read more..

Venture Funding

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 1 Comment »

In a previous post I discussed why most businesses we see should probably be bootstrapped rather than venture funded. I promised to discuss a bit more about venture backed business ... Read more..

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