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Welcome Reid Hoffman to the VC Side of the Table

05 Nov 2009. Source: Venture Blog.
First came the announcement earlier in the year that Marc Andreessen was joining the ranks of "capital" -- a welcomed defection from "labor." And now my friend Reid Hoffman has jumped into the fray as well, joining Greylock Partners in their new fund (although he is not quite abandoning "labor" -- for the time being he will continue on as Executive Chairman of LinkedIn). Having two superstars like Marc and Reid join the venture business is excellent news at a time when the press is gleefully touting the demise of our profession. While the venture business is, no doubt, under serious pressure these days, Marc and Reid have rightfully determined that there will always be room for brilliant...
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    17 Nov 2009. Source: Venture Blog. In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell talks about the power of circumstance. He explains that Bill Gates and Bill Joy had unprecedented access to the earliest computers and, as a result, they built...
  • Monetizing Twitter -- Bring on the Ads!
    09 Nov 2009. Source: Venture Blog. True, no one asked me. But here's my two cents anyway. Twitter should open up its platform to advertising. That's right, advertising. Forget all this hoo-ha over selling data or paid business acc...
  • Lessons from Rajeev Motwani's and Craig Johnson's Lives
    12 Oct 2009. Source: Venture Blog. 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 inv...
  • Pen and Paper are Mightier Than the Laptop
    30 Sep 2009. Source: Venture Blog. Relatively recently I hosted a meeting of the advisors to one of my portfolio companies. It was an impressive group of tech veterans. Each of them had been involved in the building of multi-million...
  • Fueling the IPO Fire? or Burning it Out?
    21 Sep 2009. Source: Venture Blog. This weekend I was reading a blog post written by Chris Douvos. Chris is an investor in a number of well-known venture firms and writes a blog called Super LP. His commentary always cracks me up, e...
  • Venture Capitalist At Your Service
    08 Sep 2009. Source: Venture Blog. When I first became a Venture Capitalist, I had been a practicing attorney and my partner Dave passed on the somber news that he believed there was a good chance that I would fail at the venture busi...
  • Goodbye Travel Book, Hello iPhone
    12 Aug 2009. Source: Venture Blog. I've just returned from a trip to Paris with my family and have to say that I found the use of my iPhone on the trip pretty transformative. For those of you who haven't travelled as a tourist in a f...
  • Welcome Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to the Wonderful World of Venture Capital
    06 Jul 2009. Source: Venture Blog. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to the Venture Capital fold. In a time when venture investors are often criticized by the entrepreneurial community,...
  • Rajeev Motwani, you are missed already!
    06 Jun 2009. Source: Venture Blog. I have spent the better part of this afternoon and evening trying to do anything other than think about the passing of my good friend Rajeev Motwani. But I have failed. The thought that Rajeev has ...
  • So Many Media Channels, So Little Time
    31 May 2009. Source: Venture Blog. Today TechCrunch posted a list of the "Top VC Blogs (According to Google Reader)." I was very pleased to find out that I came in at number three, sandwiched between Fred Wilson and Brad Feld. But I...