DealHorizon - the faster, easier way to create and share business plans
Partner, Flybridge Venture Capital
I'm a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners (fka IDG Ventures Boston), an early-stage venture capital firm in Boston. I converted to being a VC, having served as an...
Quicklinks
Recent Posts
- Activist Seeds - The Latest, Subtle Trend in Seed Investing
- The Bar Has Gotten Higher
- Now That The JOBS Act Has Passed, Immigration Reform Is Next
- Keep the Good News Flowing - Pass the JOBS Act, Now
- Fred Wilson Visits With the HBS Start-Up Tribe
- Personal Reinvention - Lessons From the Kingdoms of Amalur
- What Makes The Boston Start-Up Scene Special?
- Steve Blank vs. Steve Jobs
- Scaling is Hard
- Top 5 Scaling Lessons From Superhero CEOs
- Why Groupon (and other high-flying start-ups) Should Take a Page From Ayn Rand
- Peace Through Entrepreneurship?
- Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership...
- Techstars on TV - Hit or Miss?
- Summer Reading
- Catch the Wave 8.0 - Live From Kennebunkport
- Arranged Marriages
- A New, Intellectual Fertile Crescent - Allston and Cambridge
- Groupon S-1: Mind The Ratios
- 5 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Navy SEALs
Archives
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (1)
- February 2012 (3)
- January 2012 (2)
- November 2011 (1)
- October 2011 (3)
- September 2011 (1)
- August 2011 (3)
- June 2011 (2)
- 2011 (8)
- 2010 (24)
- 2009 (27)
- 2008 (22)
By Category
- External (100)
|
Posted: Monday 30 April 2012
-
Views (4)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
When I entered the VC business 10 years ago, I tried to keep thinking about venture capital as a business, where the key focus area was on meeting the needs of our target customers -- entrepreneurs and limited partner investors....
This is an external blog.Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Thursday 12 April 2012
-
Views (8)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
When I first entered the venture capital business 10 years ago after being an entrepereneur, my partners warned me that "my bar" for new investments would get higher over time. In other words, the criteria to make a new investment...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Friday 6 April 2012
-
Views (8)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
Yesterday was a pretty special day. Not only did I get to attend the White House ceremony at the Rose Garden for the passing of the JOBS Act, but I got to see one of our CEOs featured as an...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Monday 19 March 2012
-
Views (8)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
These last few weeks have been about as encouraging as any that I can remember when it comes to economic news. The US economy seems to be, finally, recovering nicely from the Great Recession (The Economist tongue-in-cheek headline this weekend:...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Tuesday 28 February 2012
-
Views (6)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
For the second year, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures was kind enough to come to HBS to meet with the class Professor Tom Eisenmann and I co-teach called Launching Technology Ventures. Similar to last year, it was a terrific...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Sunday 26 February 2012
-
Views (17)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
I became a venture capitalist over nine years ago, leaving my entrepreneurial career at the ripe age of 32. At the time, I had been an entrepreneur for ten years across three companies, and felt helping start Flybridge Capital represented...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Wednesday 15 February 2012
-
Views (16)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
There continues to be great interest around the world regarding how to build innovation clusters. Inspired by a similar presentation that Fred Wilson did on the NYC start-up scene many years ago, I pulled this presentation together. I just updated...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Saturday 28 January 2012
-
Views (16)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
I am co-teaching a class at Harvard Business School on entrepreneurship called "Launching Technology Ventures" along with my friend and colleague, Professor Tom Eisenmann. The class kicked off this week with two cases: Dropbox and Aardvark. As I reflect on...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Wednesday 4 January 2012
-
Views (18)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
At the onset of 2012, many start-up executives around the world are sticking their copy of Lean Start-Up on the shelf, leaning back, and bemoaning the fact that they have a new set of challenges ahead of them. Although there...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Tuesday 1 November 2011
-
Views (26)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
Scott Kirsner of The Boston Globe called them the startup equivalent of the Justice League of America. Six superhero CEOs gathered on Friday afternoon at the Mass TLC Unconference to discuss the challenges of scaling their young companies. The CEOs...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Friday 21 October 2011
-
Views (27)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
Fountainhead is one of my all time top ten favorite books. The lead character, Howard Roark is an independent-minded architect who bucks conventional wisdom and delivers buildings with vision and verve in the face of criticism and doubt - in...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Tuesday 11 October 2011
-
Views (27)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
I had an out of body experience last week. A few days before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar and a spiritual day of remembrance, I found myself in front of ten Palestinian high...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Monday 3 October 2011
-
Views (37)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
The policy conversation regarding jobs and economic development is starting to show some promising signs, particularly in helping young companies flourish. The fact that the entrepreneurial ecosystem is critical to job creation should be obvious, but there remains a misperception...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Wednesday 14 September 2011
-
Views (53)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
Like many members of the start-up ecosystem, I was excited to watch the Bloomberg TV show on Techstars NY last night. The opportunity to see our little subculture of whacky characters and idiosyncrasies playing out on television was so alluring...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Tuesday 23 August 2011
-
Views (38)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
One of my favorite parts of summer is having the opportunity to catch up on pleasure reading. Like many, I read so much work-related material that it is refreshing to have the luxury to broaden my thinking and information intake...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Monday 8 August 2011
-
Views (42)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
Every summer we invite our portfolio company executives and their families along with friends of the firm to Kennebunkport, Maine for some fun and sun. The event is all about having fun and community building - no conferences or panels...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Friday 5 August 2011
-
Views (40)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
My wife and I have picked out the perfect spouse for my son. They have developed a wonderful relationship together over the years, with great chemistry and warmth. She comes from a family that has identical values and priorities to...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Thursday 16 June 2011
-
Views (56)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
In ancient history, the Fertile Crescent extended from lower Egypt, through modern-day Israel and into Assyria and Mesopotamia. Thanks to the waterways, population density, and diversity of peoples, it was characterized by an unparalleled flow of goods and services and...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Friday 3 June 2011
-
Views (57)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
When evaluating company documents and filings, a hedge fund manager friend of mine has a simple mantra: "read the footnotes". So when the Groupon S-1 was posted last night, I was eager to pour over it and find a few...
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
Posted: Friday 13 May 2011
-
Views (51)
- Category:
External
- View Comments
There has been a surge in interest with the world of the Navy SEALs since the Osama bin Laden action (this piece in the WSJ was a particularly good profile) and I confess to being caught up in it myself....
|
This is an external blog. Please click here to go to this blog entry |
