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.

Maybe There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch

I had a great time at SXSW this year, but the conference has gotten so big that I…

As many of you know, at this time last year we were looking for our first hire in the San

Francisco office. The response was overwhelming, as were the number of really good people that we met through that process, and we ended up being able to work with a…

I wrote a while ago about our investment in Get Satisfaction and the thesis behind the investment. Well, the Get Satisfaction team is spreading the love by hosting a one day summit, Customer Service Is The New Marketing, in San Francisco next week.