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December 30, 2009 10:37 AM

Is An Inside Round Good or Bad?

December 14, 2009 11:29 AM

A VC on Pitching VC’s

December 5, 2009 4:15 PM

Things To Consider About Who You Should Take VC Money From

Things To Consider About Who You Should Take VC Money From

August 25, 2009 9:58 AM

Thoughtful Analysis on the Dynamics of the VC Industry

August 7, 2009 10:47 AM

How to Run a Great Board Meeting

August 4, 2009 8:51 AM

Ruminations On Whether Seattle VC’s Suck

June 20, 2009 10:55 AM

How To Cold Call A VC

June 16, 2009 8:54 AM

Betting on A Big Wave

June 7, 2009 10:56 PM

When Failure Is An Option

May 30, 2009 8:06 PM

Key Characteristics of a Great Startup Culture

May 12, 2009 4:09 PM

Communications Advice for Pitching Venture Capitalists

March 24, 2009 6:33 AM

What Are VCs Good For?

March 22, 2009 7:21 PM

Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon

January 29, 2009 10:31 AM

Ideas On Hiring

December 10, 2008 3:41 PM

Deciding Which VCs to Avoid (or to approach)

November 10, 2008 3:44 PM

Healthy Ways to Tighten the Corporate Belt

November 9, 2008 7:16 AM

Visualizing Your Portfolio

November 5, 2008 7:32 AM

SaaS and Cost Cutting vs. Sales

October 27, 2008 6:12 AM

What's Your Burn Rate Mean?

October 25, 2008 10:36 AM

Who You Deal With and How You Deal With Them

October 10, 2008 2:18 PM

How Does the Current Macro Economy Affect Venture Capitalists and Startups?

October 3, 2008 10:19 AM

How Many Companies Should Be in a VC's Fund?

August 7, 2008 4:03 PM

Answer The Question Honestly

July 4, 2008 11:25 AM

Intent, Term Sheets, and Off Limit Questions

June 30, 2008 5:31 AM

Where Are My IPOs?

May 30, 2008 9:38 AM

Getting Into The VC Business

May 23, 2008 11:07 AM

A VC's View on Why Startups Fail

May 8, 2008 6:18 AM

Get Rid of the Friction

April 28, 2008 6:15 PM

VC Perspective on Intellectual Property

April 24, 2008 5:24 PM

After The Term Sheet

March 29, 2008 12:02 PM

Do You Know What You Don't Know?

March 27, 2008 9:26 AM

How A VC Thinks About Marketplaces

March 22, 2008 11:35 AM

Communicating With Your Board

March 11, 2008 6:22 AM

It's My Fault

March 7, 2008 2:30 PM

Saving Money When Running A Startup

February 28, 2008 8:11 AM

Do You Have Conviction and Discipline?

February 22, 2008 1:52 PM

Power and Spooky Minds

February 4, 2008 6:11 AM

Pondering Bridges

January 27, 2008 2:42 PM

This Downturn Will Be Different

January 25, 2008 9:33 AM

A VCs Thought On A Potential Downturn

January 11, 2008 6:31 AM

Angel Funding Toolkit

January 9, 2008 5:52 AM

What Is A CTO?

December 31, 2007 9:55 AM

My Lawyer Wants Equity in My Startup

December 27, 2007 8:27 PM

Mark Davis - Get Venture

December 13, 2007 9:11 AM

Sales is a Science, not an Art

December 3, 2007 8:49 AM

Should Venture-backed Companies Require Non-Competes?

November 11, 2007 10:47 PM

Don't Ask For An NDA

November 7, 2007 7:57 PM

Litigation Sucks

November 6, 2007 5:50 AM

What Should You Send To Prospective Investors?

November 3, 2007 5:31 PM

Fun VC Phrases That Mean Nothing

October 22, 2007 6:41 AM

Eek - A Competitor Just Raised $50 Million - Now What?

October 16, 2007 6:22 AM

The Next 20 Hires

October 9, 2007 4:32 PM

Getting To No - Quickly

October 4, 2007 5:55 AM

When A VC Says "I Need 20% Of The Company"

September 29, 2007 12:17 PM

More on Potential Tax Law Changes for Venture Capitalists

September 25, 2007 5:50 AM

Emailing Your VC

August 6, 2007 4:45 PM

Quick Overview of Preferred Stock

July 31, 2007 3:45 PM

Latest and Greatest on Stock Option Practices

July 26, 2007 7:18 AM

Sometimes VCs are Crazy

July 20, 2007 5:10 AM

How To Do A Layoff

July 9, 2007 5:27 AM

Asymmetric Risk

July 4, 2007 7:40 AM

Did You Make Your Expense Plan?

June 13, 2007 6:40 AM

How To Start A Company Like Schilling Pitches

June 8, 2007 7:00 PM

How To Get A Gig as a VC Associate (or Analyst)

May 29, 2007 11:30 PM

Decision Making Using Noninstrumental Information

May 15, 2007 5:51 AM

The Widget Economy

April 24, 2007 7:49 AM

Josh Kopelman on "Catch and Release" vs. "Catch and Keep"

April 12, 2007 12:31 PM

Fred Wilson on Reserves

March 11, 2007 10:19 AM

The Power of Free

March 6, 2007 7:10 AM

Failure and the Loser's Curse

February 24, 2007 10:53 AM

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Everything You Need To Know About Venture Capital

February 20, 2007 8:27 AM

The Value of No

February 16, 2007 6:54 AM

Why Do Companies Fail?

February 13, 2007 6:09 AM

Nothing Is Standard

February 5, 2007 4:30 PM

Founder Promotions

February 3, 2007 1:07 PM

Say What You Mean

January 29, 2007 5:00 PM

I Want Control - Pretty Please

January 26, 2007 2:46 PM

How To Become a Venture Capitalist

January 23, 2007 1:03 PM

Do IRR's Matter?

January 18, 2007 12:27 AM

VC Primer from an Entrepreneur's Point of View

January 17, 2007 7:31 AM

More on NDA's

January 7, 2007 1:13 PM

How Many Boards Can A VC Handle?

January 3, 2007 7:21 AM

Questions You Should Ask Yourself During Fundraising

January 1, 2007 10:27 AM

How To Earn Frequent Flyer Miles on US Airways

December 31, 2006 4:22 PM

Fred Wilson's Predictions for 2007

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