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 | 3 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 | No Comments »

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..

Selecting a Business Model, Part 2

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Research | 7 Comments »

In Selecting a Business Model, Part 1 I listed the Basic Business Model Archetypes of a business based on the rights being sold, the type of asset, and if applicable, ... Read more..

Selecting a Business Model, Part 1

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Research | 5 Comments »

Many before me have written about Business Models (in fact the reason I decided to write this is because of David Crow's blog post last month titled Business Models) but ... Read more..

Experience-Driven Product Strategy

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Best Practices, Conferences | 5 Comments »

I thought for my first post I'd share some points from one of the sessions I attended at Web 2.0 Expo a few weeks ago. The session was held by ... Read more..