Who says European startups can’t raise serious venture capital?
Word came from ividence CEO Eric Didier this morning that 2-year old startup, ividence, closed a $4.2 million Series A financing with A Plus Finance, a Paris-based private equity firm. ividence is a SaaS email ad network that generates [...]
Continue Reading →I had a delightful lunch yesterday with Howard Hartenbaum, a general partner at August Capital. The lunch was offered as a “prize” during Lunchster‘s six-minute product launch at DEMOfall. I’d agreed to have lunch with whomever won the draw, even these [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve always known that Josh Kopelman is smart, but his April Fools’ prank, TheUnFunded.com, is brilliant.
Had he wanted to open a dialog on the deteriorating relationship between Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneurs he could not have found a better catalyst. While the site was intended as a joke, its [...]
Continue Reading →On the evening of March 13, I’ll be moderating a panel of CEOs of VC-backed companies to explore issues of leadership, skills, pressures and balance that every startup CEO faces. I’ve had the pleasure to work with Frederic Lucas-Conwell, principal at Continue Reading →
I woke up Friday morning to discover that I’d become a cat herder. You know the role: trying to get dozens and dozens of pieces and people corralled into some semblance of order. I should come to expect it in the few days before a DEMO Conference is set to begin. After all, I’ve been [...]
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