Future of Venture Funds: Innovation Coming

Venture funds, traditionally, have been extremely selective about their investments. Many firms barely make 5-10 investments a year, and only about 50 investments in the entire lifetime of a seven year fund. Lately, however, I am observing a different structure emerging in the early stage market. Instead of 5-10 investments a year, some investors are

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Looking For A Pilot Entrepreneur To Invest In

Entrepreneurs, I am looking for an entrepreneur with whom to pilot a new service that will be part of the 1M/1M initiative. In collaboration with an outsourced product development company in India, we will invest engineering resources to bring a product to market for an early stage startup.

Podcast at Renewable Energy World

Check this interview out: Learning from Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs.

Pioneering Data On-Demand: Salary.com CEO and Serial Entrepreneur Kent Plunkett (Part 3)

SM: It was easy to raise money in 1999. It was not easy to raise money in 2001. What was your experience raising angel money during that time window? KP: I have never had a problem raising angel money. It was extremely easy in 1999. We did talk to some venture capitalists, but they did

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Obama’s Economic Policy

I am frustrated with Obama for not addressing the questions about what he plans to do to turn around the economy. I am also frustrated with his anti-business, anti-globalization, and anti-free-trade rhetoric. It has led me to ponder the question, what should US economic policy focus on to get some vitality back into the system?

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Another $800 Million Fund

Lightspeed Ventures announced the raising of its new $800 Million fund. “It was a robust fundraising environment,” [Chris] Schaepe [General Partner] said. “There continues to be very good appetite within the LP community for early-stage venture capital.” Right. Early stage venture capital with a $800 Million fund. Read: Fund Envy and The Real VCs of

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Early Stage

Brad Feld has a good post here on entrepreneurship and early stage venture capital. It is actually an email from one of his readers.

Building Tech Startups in India: Summary

The Good It is a matter of time The local market for technology products is nascent; the VC model for financing startups fairly new and some issues will work themselves out over time. The current vicious circle – relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs and risk-averse VCs – needs just a few hits to break the cycle.