After Dave posted about Venture Deals, I ordered a copy and read it cover to cover. I wish it existed when I was raising money — I would have ended up with a better deal that cost me less in fees. Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, from the Foundry Group wrote the book, and it [...]

Fred Wilson has a great post up about macro trends and their impact on VC and startups. The paragraph that jumped out at me was the following: And I don’t think the startup economy and venture capital is immune to this new reality. So what should we do about it? Well first, we need to [...]

Just about everywhere you look, you see how the US mortgage meltdown is negatively affecting everything connected to it. Even in this market though, people are killing it. The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article about Magnetar and the handsome profits it made betting against the mortgage market. WSJ Online (Reg Required): A Fund Behind [...]

I just got back from a week-long trip to India and I was blown away¬† by how much growth the country is experiencing. The economy is booming and there’s opportunity everywhere. Infrastructure is straining to keep up – there’s traffic everywhere, airports are clogged, streets are crowded, there’s advertising everywhere you look – in short, [...]