Merrick is a co-founder of Damballa, teachs an undergrad entrepreneurial class out of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, and is managing director of Profounder, a seed-stage investment company in which I am a partner. The first occurred back in 2007. gave him a little there. Here's more. By Ty McMahan. MORE >>

There’s been an enormous about of blog and news chatter about angel investors, especially seed investors and the emergence of super angel / micro VCs, in the past few months. While I know many VCs that I would categorize as terrible seed investors, I know plenty that are excellent seed investors. MORE >>

Or are you somehow splitting that one out in stage? One thing that this chart suggests is that there is a negative correlation between buzz and stage of investment (although I haven’t run the regression). In the Buzz pie chart, it does look like all the mid-stage and later investors are clustered into the smaller slices. MORE >>

Office 365 updates Exchange and SharePoint to the 2010 versions, replaces Office Communicator 2007 with Lync 2010 and also adds the Office Web Application suite which allows you to view and edit Office 365 documents from a web browser if the native applications are not installed. Chris is a seed stage VC. The Alien Entrepreneur. MORE >>

What do you get when you combine 7 panelist plus one moderator on to a stage for 30 minutes to talk about a serious topic? We need people at all stages of the funding lifecycle and not just VCs. Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. MORE >>