Atlas Venture, Longworth Ventures, Correlation Ventures and a group of angels are providing PowerInbox, the open platform for e-mail service, with $1.1 million in funding. PowerInbox raised most of these funds […]

Venture capital is not dead. Despite the protests from the Kauffman Foundation and others about its demise, it is very much alive.

Having just returned from a trip abroad to talk to numerous investors, I sense […]

As venture investors, we spend every day of our lives working closely with some of the most innovative companies in the world. Yet we are continually amazed at how much our society asks of them:

We ask them […]

“Necessity, who is the mother of invention”
—Plato, The Republic

As we evaluate investment opportunities, we like to dive deep into an entrepreneur’s background and story… What did he study in school? What […]

Mark Zuckerberg famously commented that a great engineer is worth a 100 average engineers (something every developer knows deep in her heart). He was talking about A-players, and in our opinion the worst thing any […]

November is fast approaching, so it should come as no surprise that President Obama’s proposal for “business tax reform” includes some elements sure to play well in Peoria.

The plan would slash the top […]