Fred Wilson has a great blog post today entitled The 'We Need to Own' Baloney.  In it he discussed the fact that many VC's apply arbitrary ownership thresholds to investments.  I couldn't agree with Fred more - but I'd take it even further.  This is not just limited to ownership requirements.  The amount VC's "need" to invest. of market value.  MORE >>

In the past three weeks, I have attended 2 memorial services and 2 brises. The brises celebrated the births of two future superstars -- the sons of four of the smartest entrepreneurs and venture investors in the Bay Area. The outpouring of love and respect for Rajeev was overwhelming. Craig was an incredible builder and connector. MORE >>

Whenever someone thinks about building databases, web servers or other high performance pieces of server software the natural assumption is that it has to be written in C or C++ (or maybe java). The argument is usually something along MORE >>

If I could pick any one interview question for hiring a business person, I would ask them to talk about the conflict in the Middle East. What’s their perspective? Do they take a stance? Do they try to argue something that they have no education on? What do they think of the supposed “enemy? Especially here at Berkeley. MORE >>

This was an incredible episode of This Week in Startups with special guest Mark Goulston. Definitely worth a watch if your in a leadership/founder position at a startup or hope to be some day! MORE >>