At Lux Capital we pride ourselves in backing great entrepreneurs working on important and relevant problems. I’ve written before that great entrepreneurs pursue problems they can relate…

Reading Paul Graham’s wonderful post on How to Convince Investors prompted me think back over my last 5 years in venture capital and what traits stood out among entrepreneurs that I was most impressed by.

A few days ago I caught up with my friend Helen Greiner who is a world-class engineer and a successful entrepreneur. Helen is an amazing person, a fellow MIT engineer, co-founder of iRobot, and now…

My friend, and partner at General Catalyst, Hemant Taneja, wrote a great blog post at HBR on Economies of UnScale. He and I had discussed this idea before (when he had it in draft form), and I was hoping he would publish it soon as it is indeed an…

Dan Primack wrote an int’g article yesterday on Fortune titled “VCs and entrepreneurial ego”, to discuss his views on why a growing numbers of VCs are getting so active in the media/PR/journalism game, and…

On December 11th an awesome event took place in Boston. Dozens of VCs, angels and entrepreneurs came together for an event called Unpitch Boston. It wasn’t a biz plan competition, a demo day, or a chance to meet your favorite investor for…