After an awesome community-building party at Bessemer, I chatted outside in the cool of the night with an entrepreneur. Now, I’ve written before about this person (see “VC Arrogance: Inevitable?”). He is incredibly sharp. He mentioned something I’ve never heard before: “It’s very hard to have trusting and open relationships with other entrepreneurs.” He thinks
My Children and Swimming at the YMCA
I am at our town YMCA this Saturday morning, watching two of my children take swimming lessons. We have what some consider to be a “large” family. Yet, it doesn’t feel large to us. Each child is so unique and is such an individual. It would be impossible to lump them into a homogeneous group.
My Summer at Bain Capital
I was very lucky during business school. I was hired as a summer associate at Bain Capital on the investment side. They didn’t have an official program but made an exception. At the end of the summer, I received an offer to join full time. I turned it down. They were shocked. Back then, Bain
“How Much Money Should I Raise?” (and the Race between Fear and Greed)
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
When Web Tips to Mobile
It’s cool to see a Web site reach a tipping point. A few years ago, I stumbled upon MyFitnessPal.com. I try to track my calories and nutrition overall and I was looking for something to help me do that. The web site was “OK and not great”. I stopped using it after a few days.
Venture Cafe Office Hours on Oct. 18
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