Monthly Archives: September 2008

OpenCoffee Club Pittsburgh – Wednesday, October 1st

The next installment of that uber-hip phenom that is being talked about all around town – yep, that’s the OpenCoffee Club! – will take place tomorrow at the AlphaLab – Wednesday, October 1st, at 9:00am.
For those of you who know about OCC – be there or be square.
For those of you who DON’T know about [...]

How Are VCs and Early Stage Investors Reacting To The Current Crisis?

I have been asked by many friends and former colleagues about the implications of the current credit crisis on my industry.  My answer is pretty straightforward:  I am not too worried.

There are three angles to consider if you are a venture capitalist:
 

Investors/Limited Partners – these are the people whose money we invest.  Since we collect [...]

In Times of Market Turmoil, Focus on Capital Efficiency

Sorry for the late-summer posting lull, but September always brings the re-start of the venture conference season… and we had a nice power outage, to boot!  Ike passed through, but now all tree branches are removed, all wires restrung, all transformers replaced – so we are back in business.

There was a nice post today by [...]

If You Have a Startup, You Have to Get OUT THERE!

I am sitting in the audience at the TechCrunch50 conference, the second annual west coast meetup put on by the highly popular tech blog TechCrunch (I guess this makes one of my first “live blogging” attempts…).

I wanted to shoot of a quick post about one one of the things that good entrepreneurs do:  THEY MARKET [...]

Shameless Re-Post: Meakem Becker Article in PopCity

These are my bosses – Original PopCity Article Link

Changemakers: Glen Meakem and Dave Becker
By: Abby Mendelson

September 3, 2008
To begin with, it doesn’t look like $75 million. It looks more like a modest, suburban insurance office, Sewickley second story, zoned commercial. OK, there are framed clippings doubling as wall art – deals hither and yon, Inc. [...]