It’s so awesome to see Matt Brezina and his team at Sincerely have their amazing effort recognized as they announce that Sincerely has been acquired by Provide Commerce today. I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with Matt since he started Xobni back in the day and rarely do I get…

I couldn’t be more thrilled for the team at Outright on their acquisition by GoDaddy today!

When the founders first approached me with their vision for a simple, approachable accounting solution for small businesses, it made tremendous sense. These businesses needed…

A while back I posted a job opening at First Round Capital for our first Analyst. After posting, I was instantly deluged with resumes from many excellent candidates. And the resumes kept coming for weeks, most recently as the posting found it’s way to Doostang.

Paul Graham writes another thought-provoking essay today on both why founders don’t sell early (or why they might) as well as castigates corporate development organizations and VCs for not being risk takers when it comes to valuing companies. I think he is mostly right, as usual, as do a…

As you might imagine, the conversation du jour in VC and entrepreneur circles is around the current market gyrations, the Sequoia conclave (and kudos to those guys for kicking off this conversation), the subsequent very smart opinions from VCs and entrepreneurs alike, and what happens next.

Mint.com announced today that they were acquired by Intuit for $170 million.

It has been a short 3 years since we met Aaron Patzer at a STIRR dinner in the Valley. Seven days after we met, he had a term sheet for his seed round and off he went. During that time we have had a ringside…