The Tampa Bay Business Journal just carried a story on the SBIR/VC-ownership debate and I’ve seen it kicked around enough now that I have some thoughts. At first, I wasn’t sure where to land on this because 1) I start with a skepticism about most large government programs, 2) VC-backed startups are just jostling for [...]
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by Dan Rua…just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs…
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Jul 20
The IOS That Takes a Village
I’ve blogged before about the coming Internet Operating System (IOS) and about Mashups, but it’s all one big ball of goo. Christine has a nice series of posts from Mashup Camp 2, and many of the session titles remind me of early Windows-OS/2 developer conferences I participated in. Whether we’re talking about (de)centralized access control, [...]
Jul 19
Top Ten Ways to Multiply a Megafund?
The Thomson/NVCA report on Q2 venture fund raising is out and the numbers are big. In the quarter, fifty venture capital funds raised a total of $11.2 billion. Admittedly, the numbers are skewed because of a couple particularly large funds closing in the quarter. Oak Investment Partners XII landed $2.56 billion, the largest venture fund [...]
Jul 11
Forecast for a Reason
Josh, Fred and Matt have a nice series of posts on forecasting, including some models for tracking and updating. Josh even provided a sample waterfall XLS. As they mentioned, these exercises are good for all companies, but critically important when early/mid-stage companies have some revenue and trying to reach escape velocity. One comment I’d add [...]
Jul 10
If Michael Jordan and Howard Stern can do it…
And now a word from our sponsor, literally — I mean this post will contribute $10 to pay my hosting fees. The era of celebrity endorsements has arrived for bloggers — or at least gotten a whole lot easier. No, I’m not saying that Nike just backed a truck up to my house with shoes [...]
Jul 05
Battle of the Founders
Andrew shared some tough, but valuable founder lessons in his post Key Lessons From Cryptine Network’s Failure. I’ve seen this multiple times, from both sides of the table, and it still surprises me how severe founder disagreements can become when money starts to show up. It doesn’t even require bad people in the mix, just [...]
