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Sorry I haven’t posted in a while -- it’s been a hectic stretch. And I also have to admit that I’ve been watching a lot of Indiana Jones movies with LittleLP lately. Every now and again, I’ll wonder if I should be doing something productive like scribbling down a blog post or paying some bills, but the moment I see that fedora I’m frozen in place like one of Indy’s antagonists in the presence of some ancient and mystical idol. And I’ve long thought that the best of the bunch is The Last Crusade, but only recently did I realize that the last scene of that movie offers a metaphor for the craft of investing. Stick with me on this for a moment: As you’ll recall, the movie reaches its climax when the good guys catch up

There are four types of investors on any VC firm’s team: pure investors, operators turned investors, domain experts and jacks of all trades. At their core, each VC has varying experience across three key dimensions: investing experience, operating experience and domain expertise. Investing experience includes investment banking, corporate development and principal investing roles (e.g., venture […]

Recently, one of our companies presented to another venture group as they were out looking for their next financing round. After a reasonably positive report on the meeting from the CEO, he received an email from the firm that was said something like “We think you’re tackling a huge opportunity, but we don’t have the […]

This question seems to come up quite a bit among LPs and GPs: Should a general partner at a VC firm spend time writing a blog, when it appears to be such a time-consuming process? Why would VCs even consider creating blogs to document thoughts or musings about the industry at large, when there are […]