To: My favorite GP

From: Your (increasingly disillusioned) LP

Subject: Your Proprietary deal-flow

Next time you use the words “proprietary deal flow”, notice that I sigh, and gently roll my eyes. My […]

And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker for all those entrepreneurs – the crazy ones!” So, God made a venture capitalist (VC)!

I need somebody who can raise […]

2012 was the year of accelerators, crowd funding and the Series A bubble. Venture funds contracted, the big got bigger and the solo GPs bookended  the early stage VC market. And the IRR continues to improve. Lets […]

As the nation wakes up to the prospect of President Obama’s second term, I wonder if Mitt Romney, a former PE, could have learned a lesson or two from a former VC and now Governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder. VCs […]

In late 2008, Christopher Rizik, a VC and an entrepreneur rolled up his sleeves and re-invented his career. In doing so, he may well have impacted the trajectory of VC and startups in Michigan. And even the […]

A raging battle over how startups should be funded at the early stage become front page news this week with two new entrants and one industry veteran chiming in with highly-conflicting philosophies.

In one […]

Besides investing in cool startups in the Silicon Valley, what do K9 Ventures, Baseline, PivotNorth and Cowboy Ventures have in common – all of these are venture funds with one GP. Indeed, if you peek at their […]

No sooner than General Motors recovered from its financial challenges (read bankruptcy), it jumped in the world of VC. GM Ventures was launched in the summer of 2010 with a $100 million purse. The goal was simple: […]

With Facebook’s IPO and Accel’s obscene IRR, James Breyer may get the spotlight. Accel was first to the table but two unsung heroes who sniffed this one are Kevin Efrusy and Chi-Hua Chien. These two individuals […]