
It’s a Bootstrappa’s Paradise!
I had lunch with an old friend recently who does Angel investing. As sometimes happens, I launched into our lunchtime discussion with a bit of controversy by suggesting that I wasn’t too sure what the value of Angel was for many companies. After a bit of calibration on where I was coming from, we quickly […]

Woman in High Tech & The New York Times Out of the Loop
Out of the loop is the original title of a New York Times article discussing how difficult it is for women entrepreneurs to get funded, or generally to get into the management ranks in business. A title that backfires … but you’ll have to wait to see why. The first case discussed @ the NYT […]

Expand Accredited Investor Class, Not Shrink It.
There is a banking reform bill working through Congress… in case you hadn’t noticed. Fred Wilson points out, rightly so, that the banking reform does a lot more than just reform banking rules, it goes to the very heart of who can invest in non-banking activities and how. 1) Changing the definition of a “qualified […]