Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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 [...]
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
Monday, September 8th, 2008
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 [...]
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
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. [...]