For those of you in the Boulder/Denver area, I’m giving a 1.5 hour "crash course" lecture on the VC industry. The program is February 24th at 5:15 at the CU law school. You can find more information here. The topics will include everything from what makes VCs tick, who are our bosses, what are things […]
Today’s best post is from Fred Wilson and is titled Investing In Thick and Thin. Once again, Fred totally nails it. "Our approach is to manage a modest amount of capital (in our case less than $300 million across two active funds) and deploy it at roughly $40 million per year, year in and year […]
I’ve gotten several emails recently from folks complaining that their VCs are wasting their legal spend on changing indemnification agreements. What is going on and why is this important? Mike Sullivan at Howard Rice has the best plain English explanation that I’ve seen: Let’s say you’re a VC and you sit on the board of […]
Early this year Jeff Boardman approached me and Jason about a new web site he was working on called LearnVC. His goal was to build a web-based resource about venture capital for entrepreneurs and investors. As part of this, he asked if he could use content from AsktheVC and from Feld Thoughts as long as […]
We’ve gotten many emails over the past few days wondering how the meltdown is going to affect VCs and startups. The quick answer is "not much of an effect – so far." Just linking around, here are some posts that you might want to check out if you’d like to read more. Mendelson’s Musings: How […]
Q: Everyone tells me the way to approach a venture capitalist I don’t know is through a friendly introduction from someone who already knows that VC. But what happens if I don’t have the connections to get that introduction? Am I screwed? A: (Chris) Every entrepreneur who has raised venture capital has heard it a […]
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