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October 12, 2012February 28, 2025 Jo Tango

I’ve long admired the work that Tim Rowe has done at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC). He does great stuff for entrepreneurs and the community. I remember he started the CIC just after the Web 1.0 Crash happened. People were literally rushing out of start-ups. Founders were dropping the “.com” suffixes from company names. Tim

Need Some Input: Coffee Connect with a VC?

October 10, 2012October 10, 2012 Jo Tango

I’m helping the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA). They lowered the bar, and I’m now on the Board. I’d like to come up with some events that entrepreneurs will find helpful. For me, the criteria are: open and inclusive, and helpful to the entrepreneur. Ideally, an entrepreneur spear-heads this, but I’m happy to do

A Nice Tweet and Why I Do VC

October 8, 2012May 30, 2018 Jo Tango

Daniel McCarthy (@SirDanielMac) sent me a nice Tweet: Love your mission for Kepha, by the way. Not many VCs these days with a strategy to help so early when the startups really need it. It made my day, and so, thank you, Daniel. And, we do have a Mission and Operating Principles. I love my

Meeting One of Our VC Firm’s Investors

October 1, 2012September 28, 2012 Jo Tango

I really enjoy meeting with our investors. Last week, Eric and I went to visit one of them. A third-party database says that they have the best returns among all private equity investors. Top dog. The Big Kahuna. While VC returns have lagged for most, these folks are absolutely crushing it. On the VC side,

Spoke at the Dow Jones Conference

September 21, 2012September 25, 2012 Jo Tango

I spoke yesterday at the Dow Jones annual VC and PE conference. I’ve never been to the conference and found it helpful. There were many institutional investors and most of the speakers were from the buy-out space. Some snippets: The tech sector is its own world. I was the only person at the conference not

Venture Capital As a Team Sport

August 28, 2012April 5, 2018 Jo Tango

As I’ve written many times, Kepha is an equal partnership for its investing partners. Eric and I are equal in terms of economics and voting (read “How VCs Are Paid” for how firms allocate compensation). We do this because we think VC is best played as a team sport. As equal partners, we have an