BeyondVC

MARCH 1, 2006

Trust me, I love having well capitalized companies. However, having too much money can be a curse, not a blessing. More often than not, I see management lose financial discipline and avoid making hard decisions when capital is abundant and not scarce. To many executives, money does solve all problems. And yes, having money allows an entrepreneur to do many things with his business like hire more talent, scale the back-end infrastructure, and ramp up sales and marketing.

Early Stage 101

Early Stage Lead Generation Engineer Hiring 101

Spencer Fry

MARCH 2, 2006

Design 28

Design 28

BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997.

NDA 60

NDA Algorithm Equity Hiring 60

BeyondVC

MARCH 22, 2006

The hype cycle for grid computing started many years ago, and today it is mostly relegated to uses in bioinformatics, financial services, and 3d modeling (think crash testing, oil discovery, etc.). With yesterday’s announcement, Sun is making this grid infrastructure available to anyone, anytime, and on demand at Network.com. As J onathan Schwartz points out , consumer plays have been driving the surge behind massively scalable web services.

Open Source 60

Open Source Demand Web Community 60

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

Startup

BeyondVC

MARCH 20, 2006

There is an article in the Wall Street Journal (sorry-requires subscription) today on pre-emptive financings or financings that happen when a company is not actually looking for capital. It is common wisdom amongst the investment community for entrepreneurs to "eat when dinner is being served." In other words, companies should take cash even if they don’t really need it because you never know when the next meal will be served.

Deal Flow 60

Deal Flow Finance Early Stage Valuation 60

BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2006

I can’t tell you how many companies come in and present and inevitably, somewhere in the deck, is a list of advisors. Of course, as I dig in to understand what these advisors actually do for the company, 9 times out of 10 they are just high profile names that are thrown on a list to give a company a stamp of approval. Trust me, I am all for advisory boards.

Advisory Board 60

Advisory Board Vesting Portfolio Naming 60