Yesterday, I came upon this tweet by  Vijaya Sagar Vinnakota :   So I clicked thru to the first link and found a post I had written about participating preferred in 2004. believe a preferred stock is critical in venture investing.   Tags: Venture Capital and Technology Let's do a simple example. MORE >>

It was March of 2004 and I was attending an alumni event for Harvard Student Agencies ( HSA ) – a student run company at Harvard.  Since at that time I was at another venture capital firm which invested in start-ups, I was eager to meet the people behind Facebook.  Posted in Pop Culture, Venture Capital. MORE >>

In late 2011 I decided to write up an internal analysis I’d done at Venrock about the state of cleantech venture capital and make it available broadly. What’s happening to cleantech venture capital? Cleantech VC performance is substantially lagging venture capital as a whole. Philanthropic capital. MORE >>

Which brings me to a post I wrote in November 2004 called The Poker Analogy. Early stage venture capital is a lot like poker.    Preserve your capital.  Venture Capital and TechnologyI've written 5,680 posts according to Typepad. There are a lot of gems in the back catalog here at AVC. MORE >>

I did a few posts on this topic back in 2004 when I was just starting to get this blogging thing. Venture Capital and Technologythe original. the followup. the second followup. These posts were inspired by my friend Brad Feld's initial post on the same topic. Brad is frustrated with them. am too. 1) get everyone in the room. MORE >>