Tech Tuesday: Topics to Cover?
The current Tech Tuesday series is about technology in startups. I started the series out with posts on initially choosing and evolving your technology. Since then I have been writing about best practices for growing and structuring your engineering team, [...] Read more
You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence
It's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business. Today I will tell a story that I love telling. It has some of my favorite people in it. Back in 2004, early in my blogging career, [...] Read more
More Misguided Laws Proposed: Science Funding and 3D Printing
Our elected representatives are busy at work coming up with misguided laws. Leading the charge once again is Lamar Smith, this time proposing to replace peer review of NSF grants with congressional criteria (Congress of course is not exactly known [...] Read more
Simplify Your Pitch (Keep the Details for Later)
When I was an entrepreneur raising money I tended to make a classic mistake: trying to convey all the amazing things we were doing in great detail. This is a terrible strategy. Why? Because too much detail buries the story [...] Read more
Toward a Better Patent System
Another topic that I have written a lot about here on Continuations are patents and in particular software patents. While there is a lot of reform that I would love to see I have also come to appreciate that sometimes [...] Read more
Privacy: Sorry, You Can’t Have it Both Ways
There is so much happening with privacy right now that it is enough to make my head spin. What is clear though is that individuals, companies and government all want it both ways. Some parts of government want private enterprise [...] Read more
Great Entrepreneurs Will Listen To You But Will Follow Their Own Instincts
I told this story in the comments to saturday's video post, but since not everyone reads the comments and I want this to make it into MBA Mondays, I figured I would turn it into a case study. In the [...] Read more
Summer Internships at Ziggeo
It’s not too late to find a summer internship! In fact, my wife Susan and her co-founder Oliver over at Ziggeo are looking for marketing and sales interns for the summer. So if you know of any students who are [...] Read more
Is the Stock Market High?
The stock market indices are above their pre financial crisis highs. One interpretation of this is that the financial crisis was just that: a crisis of the financial sector that left the rest of the economy largely untouched. Another interpretation [...] Read more
