What Venture Capitalists Are Really Thinking
I cofounded a company called Sawhorse Media that’s making sense of Twitter (Twitter was founded by past…
Angel Financing Without Hellish Legal Fees
It’s great to hear stories like the one where Andy Bechtolsheim handed the Google founders…
Next Question?
In our last round of questions on this blog, we asked each former guest about his…
Media Devolution or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
We’ve come a long way since we first started this podcast nine months ago. When…
David Sacks’ First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of…
Evan Williams’s First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of…
Kelly Perdew’s First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch of…
Jay Adelson’s First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch…
Joel Spolsky’s First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch…
Fabrice Grinda’s First Time (Raising Money)
This is part of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a bunch…
Scott Rafer’s First Time (Raising Money)
This is the first of a new series on Venture Voice where we ask a…
Google is Making the Web Free. Will DoubleClick be its Next Free Service?
Over at Silicon Alley Insider, Hank Williams is arguing that VCs are supporting free services that ought…
Entrepreneurship in South Africa
We just received this e-mail from Sydney Mfuniselwa who gave us permission to post it:…
Silicon Valley Postcard
Silicon Alley Insider asked me to write about my trip to the West Coast (DEMO in…
Venture Voice Rebooted
We took off for the summer from Venture Voice. E-mails like these from loyal fans…
Facebook: Crossing the Chasm in Reverse
I had the pleasure of being in the very first Facebook generation. My college was…
Teaser for Next Episode: iContact
I usually don’t like to give hints about who’s coming up on Venture Voice, but…
Immigration
I was reminded of how immigration policy affects all parts of the economy while reading Fare…
Bad Influence
Bill Gates gave a very provocative Harvard Commencement speech. I was struck by this passage: But…
(Un)fair Advantage
Anyone who’s worked with venture capitalists knows that they have a language of their own…
Good Angry Customers and The Death of Sucks Sites
The social news site Digg (whose CEO is a past Venture Voice guest) recently had a user revolt after…
Worthwhile Reading
After mistaking me for an expert, people often ask me what I read. Sure, as…
Join the Venture Voice Team
How would you like to be the first person to hear the next episode of…
NYC Entrepreneur Panel
I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of excellent entrepreneurs for MBAs at NYU’s…
Run Your Startup in the 2008 Election
On the cover it would seem entrepreneurs and politicians have little in common. One creates…
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we must have been dead on…
Talking Back to Your iPod
Ever listen to Venture Voice and wish you could say something back to our guests?…
Online Social Network Entrepreneurs Social Network Offline
Last Saturday, Venture Voice show producer Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell dropped in on the Community Next: The Present…
David Sacks Launches Geni
Past Venture Voice guest David O. Sacks launched Geni today, as TechCrunch reports, which aims to be the ultimate family tree….
Confusing Comfort with Happiness
I’m not sure that there’s any correlation between entrepreneurship and fitness, but there seems to…
Bah, Humbug!
Nothing like A Podcast Carol to change one’s outlook on podcasting for 2007. How are you keeping…
Taxing Entrepreneurship
The government pays a lot of lip service risk-taking, entrepreneurship and small business. In fact,…
The Irony of You
Setting off a barrage of cutesy opening lines by bloggers, Time Magazine designated “You” as the person…
Wharton: “Where Entrepreneurship Comes to Die”
We’ve covered the ongoing debate over “teaching” entrepreneurship. Now we have a report from the front…
The VCAT (Venture Capital Aptitude Test)
Would be law students have their LSAT, medical schoolers have their MCAT, and MBAs have…
Top Five Venture Capital Firm Web Pages
While VCs rightly demand that their portfolio companies have great marketing, they generally have awful…
Area Man Achieves Your Dream
As many guests have said on this show, there’s little value in an idea that’s…
How to be a Great Entrepreneur
How do you become a great entrepreneur? According to Fortune, the answer is practice, practice, practice….
Wall Street Journal Analyzes Facebook’s Coolness Factor
The Wall Street Journal‘s reporting that Facebook‘s in acquisition talks with Yahoo! This isn’t the first time…
Venture Voice on the Podium
Margaret Atwood has been quoted as saying “wanting to meet a writer because you like…
Monday Morning Quarterbacking ODEO and The Chinese Woman
In July 2005, Ev Williams broke the news on our show that he closed a round of…
The Other Side of the Mic
One of the most frequent compliments we get about Venture Voice is that we let…
Startup Sold on eBay for $258,100 (or: eBay turns iBanker)
A web-based calendar startup called Kiko put all of its assets up on eBay a little over a week…
After Labor Day
If there are three words an entrepreneur dreads hearing in the summer, perhaps it’s “after…
Lemonade Stand: School of Hard Knocks For Young Entrepreneurs
While there’s no standard education to become an entrepreneur, almost every entrepreneur gets an early education in…
Entreprendre: What Entrepreneurs Do
Jeff Cornwall, a professor of entrepreneurship, reminds us that “entrepreneur” is just a noun. A farmer can…
Green Entrepreneur
Green can mean a lot of things to an entrepreneur. You can have a “green…
Extreme Poverty Should Be Scared (Or The Hungriest Foundation Executive Ever)
“How can I top this?” was perhaps the only big question left on Bill Gates’s…
Startup Workshop Success
The first ever Venture Voice Startup Workshop was a huge success. We’ve already received unprompted thank you…
Added Startup Workshop Speaker: David S. Rose of the New York Angels
We’ve added David S. Rose, the founder and chairman of the New York Angels, to the Venture…
Startup Workshop in One Week
There’s only one more week before the Venture Voice Startup Workshop. We’ve arranged it so there…
Netscape Got Start Up, Needs Catch Up Too
AOL’s relaunching Netscape by using the format of the popular startup Digg, which allows users to decide what…
The Difference Between a Small Business and a Small Business Mentality
Advertising Age, a publication not known for being aimed at small businesses, published an article…
Venture Voice Startup Workshop
We’ve extended the registration discount on the Venture Voice Startup Workshop. It’s a unique opportunity to interact with…
Startup Geography: New York vs. Everywhere Else
Paul Graham asks “Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?”…
Meetup Fee
Newsweek just posted an interview with Meetup founder and CEO Scott Heiferman titled See You Offline. When we interviewed Scott…
Not-So-Well-Balanced Entrepreneur
One of the common themes we notice in the people we interview is that they…
How to Build a Business on Amazon’s Back
I never thought of Amazon as a friend of entrepreneurs. Several years ago I remember…
Asking the Hard Questions
I really enjoy hearing from listeners. The best comments are the ones that challenge us…
Competitorati
For some reason we just can’t help covering the blog search wars. Our first run…
Going to School on Entrepreneurship
Fortune Magazine’s Patricia B. Gray wrote an article, Business Class, asking the age old question: Can…
Camp Entrepreneur
Forget dodgeball, entrepreneurship is now the thing to do in camp according to BusinessWeek. Within a…
Skippin’ the Ladder
The Wall Street Journal just ran an article by Emily Meehan titled Young Entrepreneurs Aim To…
Entrepreneurial Terror
When I read Steve Hindy’s excellent book Beer School in preparation for my interview with him about how…
Moderating at the Perfect Venture Conference
I just moderated a panel on “How to Build a Winning Management Team” at the Perfect…
Exclusive: Fabrice Grinda Launches OLX, Says Users Will Challenge eBay and Craigslist
Judging by the user comments, Fabrice Grinda has been one of our most popular guests. We interviewed…
Market Shrinkage
Venture capitalist Josh Kopelman gives some excellent examples from his career of disruptive entrepreneurial businesses in his blog….
Altruistic Disruption
The New York Times just published a story called Death by Smiley Face: When Rivals Disdain…
April Fools?
CNNMoney.com managing editor Allen Wastler tells us that April Fools’ Day can be a dreadful time for…
Invisible and Disruptive Entrepreneurs
While the popular mentality has shifted over the past couple of decades to recognise if…
Venture Voice to Newsweek in Under Two Months
While many of the entrepreneurs we’ve interviewed on this show have already made it big,…
Tracking Venture Voice Alumni
Soon after stating this blog, I realized I had no consistent and reliable way to…
Having Too Much Fun in the Valley?
David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals, whose co-founder Jason Fried has been a guest on our show, counters a post by Caterina…
Tracking Venture Voice Alumni
Soon after stating this blog, I realized I had no consistent and reliable way to…
