Today’s VC post of the day is from Albert Wenger (USV) and titled  Presenting Option Grants to Boards. This is feedback I give to CEOs 98% of the time after my first board meeting. While there is no standard for how to present option grants, Albert lays out a very clear set of eight pieces of data he likes to see. Title/role at company. MORE >>

Two users. That’s it. It had been a week since we had announced to friends and family our latest idea, LinkFalcon, and only two of them had bothered to try it. thought LinkFalcon had some real potential. It solved a real problem for me and one that I hoped others had. Complete disaster. Failure. Six months down the drain. Here’s why. MORE >>

Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Executive Summary. Call high. MORE >>

While I was in the midst of moving, I had the opportunity to meet with one of the guys from Linkdex and was given a private tour of their awesome SEO tool. Unfortunately, all of the moving hassle involved since then, caused me to forget much of what I intended to write about. Sorry. Get lots of backlink analysis and tracking. Tools of the Trade MORE >>

An "elevator pitch" is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. Everybody knows about these, but few people seem to deliver a good one. need your help in getting it to market.” MORE >>