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Well, I got a very pleasant surprise last night in my email. Tony Perkins notified me that I had made the Top 100 VC list in their inaugural year of the list. I don't usually like to self-promote but this...

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." -- Nora Roberts I have an old, wooden...

Don Wood sent this over today. It says a lot about how we all go about our daily lives and what we miss or overlook, especially as we have our heads down in the New Normal. ..something to think about......

My long-time Kellogg/BCG friend, Al Warms, has gone public with his latest effort, Appolicious. Al sold his previous company, Buzztracker, to Yahoo and went on to successfully run & grow Yahoo News. Appolicious is a community for application discovery. You...

I often hear entrepreneurs talking about how they need to leave Chicago or Austin or Denver to be in the Valley in order to succeed. This has puzzled me since results would indicate otherwise. Yes, a lot of the high...

I remember a period in 2000 when I was stressed beyond belief, I was getting little sleep and I had lost 15 pounds. As my portfolio plummeted downward with all others, I envisioned myself working as an evening janitor in...

Meet Joel Bauer. His created character is a riot. I'm going to go one step better. 8x10 cards with music that plays when it opens (Rocky?)...Secrets for the New Normal :-) Enjoy

There is no doubt that the venture industry is going through a major house cleaning right now. Much of the pruning that should have been done post Bubble is finally going on now as LP's start to wake up and...

In difficult times, strategic partners can be essential to survival. As companies fight for air in these cash strapped times, larger corporations have valuable resources. Our portfolio companies have leveraged partners in several ways. 1) Pre-paying revenue. Some customers will...

Despite the markets' gyrations, 2008 was the best year for liquidity in our firm's history. In fact, our largest exit (Lefthand Networks) closed in November in the heart of the downdraft. In looking across these exits, the strong exits all...