Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
That is known as the Cocktail Hour.”
Michelle and I taught at a Pre-Cana (Catholic marriage prep) class this weekend and it was great to see the eager faces and happy, young relationships of the 41 couples who were [...]
New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-22 – New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-15 N… http://ht.ly/1aYKIK #
A Cop's Tough Undercover Life: "It's amazing how women don't like you going to bed with someone else." http://bit.ly/fIgX2K #
Great post – Nomad Influencer: The Key To Gen Y is Gen X http://bit.ly/f7XzFo #
Bill Draper Takes Stock [...]
Jon Cavell, aka the famous @BurgherJon, follows up to a post I made yesterday about the difference between accelerators and incubators:
@aveeck a follow up to your post this morning, how does the rise of accelerators impact the VC process? #AskTheVC
I think the proliferation of accelerators is a great boon to the entire startup economy, and hence to [...]
There was a good article in today’s New York Times about business incubators.
Can anybody guess the number of incubators? I was stunned (maybe I shouldn’t have been) that there are over 1200, and they have their own association group.
Incubators often house a large collection of different types of business – small and medium sized businesses [...]
Of all the 50 books that I read in 2010, one stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.
Set in South Africa in the 1930s and 40s, The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay, is a very compelling semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a young man who goes by the spunky nickname “Peekay”.
The book [...]
I wrote recently about the rise of what I call agile hardware and this is a trend and industry that continue to fascinate me. I am always on the lookout for startups and investments in this nascent industry.
One of the most fascinating aspects of agile hardware are the set of hardware accessories that work with [...]
A quick post this morning about building your startup team.
I sit on the board of one of our portfolio companies that is experiencing tremendous growth and they are looking for really good talent to fill several roles. I gave them my experience with recruiting/interviewing/hiring and told them that no matter how well they do, success [...]
New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-15 – New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-08 N… http://ht.ly/1aSwge #
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven today, and we don’t know where the hell she is." #
The Difference Between PE and VC | Pittsburgh Ventures http://bit.ly/gGFl6Z #
I Am Wearing [...]
I can still remember sitting at my desk in the dorm in 1989, studying my latest chemistry textbook and believing that we only had 75 more years of fossil fuels before we would run out (what next?) and that man was causing global warming with all the CO2 we were generating.
This won’t be a rigorously [...]
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Jon Cavell asked:
@aveeck, where do previously invested VCs usually stand on a sell now or raise more & go for IPO/Big Exit? (eg Groupon & $GOOG) #AskTheVC
I had a very similar discussion on the phone yesterday with one of the founders of yubiT, a group buying/couponing startup out in Seattle. As with so many [...]