Archive for the 'business' Category
Upside of the Downturn
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
There has been a great deal of doom and gloom written about the impact of the current financial crisis’ impact on start-up activity. Doubtless, there will be difficult days ahead for many companies, their employees and their investors. But there is a silver [...]
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Tags: entrepreneurs, start-ups, vc, venture capital
After the Angels
It’s Tuesday, September 16th, 2008. Wall Street has changed forever. And so has angel financing.
The sale of Merrill Lynch, the AIG cash squeeze, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the Goldman Sachs earnings drop will extend far beyond those on Wall Street. Make no mistake, a crisis which began with residential real estate will hit [...]
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Protozoa and Product Management
I’m less than a full week into my tenure at First Round Capital and I’m already having more fun than I had hoped. One of the primary reasons I wanted to join First Round was because of the firm’s focus on companies at the earliest stages of their development. Already, I’ve seen a number of [...]
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Tags: biology, product management, start-ups
