It was another beautiful day yesterday. Part of it for me was spent in Cambridge re-connecting over coffee with a rock-star entrepreneur. There we were, sitting outside and riffing about some fun topics. I like meeting with him because he is insanely sharp and speaks his mind. He stopped me in my tracks when he
Death of a Yale grad (and how time is precious)
I just heard about Marina Keegan, who last week graduated from Yale College and a few days later was killed in a car crash. One of Kepha’s investors told me about it and forwarded her last column in the school paper, published the night before her graduation. I re-print it below (it’s from the Yale
In memoriam on Memorial Day
I hosted a lunch for an entrepreneur and his advisors downtown. During the walk back to the car, I walked by a sea of U.S. flags on the Boston Common. It was immense. The picture I took and show below doesn’t show the scope. A sign stated that volunteers put down 33,000 flags, one for
24 hours in a VC’s life
John Brennan yesterday wrote a comment to my post “How to Get a VC Job,” asking if I could shed more details on how a VC spends his time. So, I thought I’d write about the past 24 hours of my life. A fun part of VC is that every day is different. You might
“How to Get a VC Job?”
I get this question a great deal. So, both to leverage my own time and to be helpful, I thought I’d write about how I got into the VC industry, and also, try to offer some lessons learned. First up, my job is my hobby and it is my passion. I’ve always loved VC, and
Buying Facebook
This from the WSJ online: Meanwhile Theophilus Hodges, a 36-year-old property manager, stopped into an E*Trade branch in downtown Chicago on Friday morning specifically to open an account to buy Facebook shares, he said. “If it wasn’t for Facebook I wouldn’t be here,” he said as he left the branch to go to his bank