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VC Blogs – Subscribers vs. Substance

Posted in September 15th, 2009
Published in Startups, Tech Rant

The Eric Schoenfled TechCrunch article on Top VC Blogs got a fair amount of play on Twitter last week, but the background for this post originates on Larry Cheng’s site where there is a much more comprehensive listing of 100+ VC Bloggers (ranked by number of subscribers). The posts on these blogs range from superficial insight [...]

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Business Plans… Just Say No!

Posted in February 2nd, 2009

I recently read a post on LinkedIn asking for opinions on the value of formal business plans for pre-venture backed start-ups. I guess technically all start-ups are pre-venture, it’s just that most never have a prayer of actually raising any venture backing or even talking to a real VC. It reminds me of most of [...]

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Florida Venture Fun(d)

Posted in December 31st, 2008

Kudos to St. Pete Times business writer Robert Trigaux for his recent blog post (Can new fund boost Florida’s venture capital?) and his update on Florida’s Opportunity Fund. While the fund is far from new news, having several false starts and changes in leadership, the post does a good job of capturing some of the [...]

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