Yesterday, the New England VC Association (NEVCA) sponsored the first “Coffee Connect with a VC.”  I’ve written before here about my hopes to make the VC community more accessible during my two-year term on the NEVCA Board. We led with one of our strongest folks, North Bridge’s Jamie Goldstein, who has started two companies and has

There’s a silent but intense winnowing happening right now in venture capital.  As the WSJ reported here, many start-ups are having a hard time raising follow-on financing: Just under half of the 165 companies in the consumer information services sector that raised first rounds in 2010 have raised a subsequent equity round and fewer than

Zynga.  Internet fortunes won and lost.  IPOs.  VCs.  Victories and colossal failures. That was my morning meal. I caught up today over breakfast with Rich Levandov of Avalon Ventures (one of the Zynga investors).  He and I have so many overlapping friends and contacts, and so, it was good to meet up finally with him. We

An entrepreneur I know is thinking of leaving his current company to start a new one. He asked me how much money he should raise. I told him he should either raise a small amount of money or raise a very large one. A small round will be easier to raise, as you need only