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Hunting for A VC

Yesterday on the the VC fundraising panel at the TECH cocktail conference, Eric asked the VC's how an entrepreneur can hook up with a VC. (BTW, great job Eric & Frank pulling off a class A event). While there is... Read more →

Roosevelt on Effort & Failure

Jerry Mitchell, who is a special guy here in Chicago for his decades of helping entrepreneurs, just had his 70th birthday. He recently told that Teddy Roosevelt said one of his favorite quotes about perserverence and effort which I really... Read more →

TechCocktail Conference Chicago

Eric Olson and Frank Gruber are launching their first TechCocktail conference in Chicago this week on Thur, May 29th at Loyola University. You can register by clicking here. They have pulled together a great set of panelist including Dick Costolo... Read more →

So You Want to Be a VC

"...it's more about people skills and the ability to assess whether there's a market for something." -- Dick Kramlich, co-founder NEA I was cleaning out my files the other day and came across a 2005 NYT article by Gary Rivlin... Read more →

It's for the Dogs

The nice thing about doing angel investing on the side is that I can invest in fun, if not wacky, ideas from time to time. I put a little money into a friend's (John Funk, wonderful serial entrepreneur) IP incubator... Read more →

Short & Simple the Research Says

There seem to be two styles of bloggers. Those that drop shorter snippets into posts but do so once or twice a day and those that like to write longer posts but do so once a week/month. While I have... Read more →

Video Tsunami Coming

I was looking at the global statistics page at the back of the most recent Economist Magazine and noticed that it had a chart laying out the % of households in each country that use IPTV (internet) as their primary... Read more →

The VC World Inflates as Well

Following up on my post on the buyout world, the VC world has also experienced valuation inflation over the past year. As more and more liquidity comes into the sector (mostly acquisitions), VC's are beginning to feel bullet proof again.... Read more →