Here’s a very inspiring article from Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. It appears in today’s New York Times: When I was growing up, I would never have guessed that I could become a United States senator. Both of my parents — my father a Greek immigrant, my mother the child of immigrants — died before I
“Worst Parts of Being a VC?”
I read an interesting post on Quora, written by an anonymous author. He/she writes about the worst parts of being a VC. I disagree with many of the points, but I think it’s a POV that’s worth reading if you’re an entrepreneur. It’s relevant in case you get whiff of a re-org or compensation negotiations
Uh-oh, MBAs like start-ups (again)
Jeff Bussgang Tweeted an article this Saturday morning that the percentage of Stanford MBAs pursuing start-ups has gone to an all-time high (more here). It made me think of the Harvard Business School business plan contests in 1999 and 2000. I gave the kick-off talks for both contests. In the fall of 1999, there were
VC arrogance: inevitable?
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