Blog Profile / A VC
| URL : | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Venture Capital | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2085 | |
| Posts / Week: | 7.8 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Congratulations Indiana
We talk a lot of NBA basketball in the comments but I don't post about it. This blog is supposed to be about startups and tech, for the most part. But the Knicks lost last night in Indiana and my...
Video Of The Week: SNL's Take On Google Glass
This is pretty funny.
Fun Friday: Morning Joe
It feels like its been a while since we did a fun friday around here. So here goes. How do you like your morning cup of coffee? I go with the Cortado, ideally in a shot glass. Here's one from...
S4 Running Stock Android
Google announced so many things yesterday that it makes my head spin. Goodness all around in Google land. But there is one thing that really caught my eye. Google will start selling a Galaxy S4 running "stock android" in the...
A Day Late And A Dollar Short
So RIM has decided that it is time to make Blackberry Messenger (BBM) cross platform. They announced yesterday that by this summer BBM will be available on iOS and Android. The time to do this was in 2008/2009 when BBM...
Losing The Team
Boards can be pretty patient. They can put up with a lot of failings, particularly in the early days of a startup when the product isn't where it needs to be. But one thing a Board cannot tolerate is when...
You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence
It's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business. Today I will tell a story that I love telling. It has some of my favorite people in it. Back in 2004, early in my blogging career,...
Mothers Day
Happy Mothers Day to all mothers out there. I am particularly grateful to the two mothers in my life, my mom and the Gotham Gal. I looked at the mirror the other day and saw my mom in my face....
Video Of The Week: Build A School In The Cloud
The Gotham Gal and I just watched this TED talk. It's very thought provoking.
Feature Friday: Dedicate A Song
Yesterday I dedicated a song on Piki to my friend Whitney. He DM'd me and said "I haven't had that happen to me since the days of call-in radio shows". Dedicating a song is my favorite feature on Piki. It...
Piecemeal Patent Reform
Patent trolls are one of the biggest scourges on the startup ecosystem in the US. The ideal solution, which was recently taken by the country of New Zealand, would be to ban software patents outright. But try as we might,...
Off The Schneid
The almost two year long slump is over. I've led a new venture investment for USV, which closed a few weeks ago and was announced last night. The company is Coinbase and my blog post announcing the investment is on...
The Web's Community Of Communities
Disqus quietly pushed this out in the past few weeks. The cool thing is this is interactive, meaning you can click on any of those bubbles and get to the blog post and discussion. I've been doing that every morning...
Great Entrepreneurs Will Listen To You But Will Follow Their Own Instincts
I told this story in the comments to saturday's video post, but since not everyone reads the comments and I want this to make it into MBA Mondays, I figured I would turn it into a case study. In the...
Life Lessons From Improv
The Gotham Gal and I just watched Dick Costolo's commencement speech which he gave yesterday at the University Of Michigan. He went back to his time doing improv in Chicago and cited two big lessions he got from that experience;...
Video Of The Week: My Talk With Arrington
I talked to Mike Arrington this past week at TechCrunch Disrupt. We covered some fun topics, most of which will be well known to the AVC community. It's just shy of 30mins.
Feature Friday: Hack Your Home Screen
I was hanging with Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of our portfolio company DuckDuckGo yesterday. I was lamenting that I could not replace the Google search widget at the top of my android home screen with the DuckDuckGo search widget....
Good Things Come to Those Who Code Campaign Wrapup
The widget came down on Tuesday night at midnight. The DonorsChoose campaign I called Good Things Come To Those Who Code is over. Here are some stats: Total Raised: $25,172 Donors: 162 Students Helped: 8,551 I really appreciate the generosity...
Mentoring At AFSE
When I've written posts about the stuff I and others are working on to bring more computer science into the K-12 school system, I often hear "let me know how I can help." This post is about how you can...
We Didn't Know What We Had
I sat next to Jim Cramer last night at a dinner put on by some mutual friends. I hadn't seen Jim in a while so it was a great opportunity to take a trip down memory lane. In 1996 or...