by Brad Feld March 22, 2009

Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon

Today’s best post of the day is from Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital. Most of Josh’s posts are winners and Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon) provides some great insights into the impact of risk tolerance during the 2000 downturn and how PayPal used it as a competitive weapon against eBay.

Today’s best post of the day is from Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital. Most of Josh’s posts are winners and Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon) provides some great insights into the impact of risk tolerance during the 2000 downturn and how PayPal used it as a competitive weapon against eBay.

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October 10, 2008

How Does the Current Macro Economy Affect Venture Capitalists and Startups?

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 […]

December 5, 2009

Things To Consider About Who You Should Take VC Money From

Roger Ehrenberg has today’s best VC post titled Thoughts on Taking Venture Money. It is a long one, but worth reading slowly as an add-on to Chris Dixon’s post Does a VC’s brand matter?

May 30, 2008

Getting Into The VC Business

Fred Wilson has today’s great VC blog post up titled I Got Lucky. It’s the story of how Fred got into the VC business – going back to 1986. I met Fred in 1996 the same day I met Seth Godin at Yoyodyne (which ended up being the first investment out of Fred’s new fund […]

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