There has been a lot of conjecture about how the Venture community will respond to the economic downturn. My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad. If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on [...]

Here is the list of all things tech/web going on in Los Angeles in December 2008. This list is put together each month by my friend Nicole Jordan, follow her on twitter Click Here to Download or Embed Los Angeles Tech Events – December 2008 The playboy pic is just for random sensationalism. But it [...]

Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles? Most emphatically, Yes! I’ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica, CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. As unreliable as stereotypes may be, these are my generalizations. Bay [...]

Bestcovery, a new venture by Kamran Pourzanjani the co-founder and former CEO of PriceGrabber, was announced today on TechCrunch. Kamran is one of the investors in docstoc and I’ve got to know him well and consider him a dear friend. I dig his concept of helping consumers find the best products through experts driven reviews. [...]

I’m hosting a talk next Wednesday November 19th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm on “Raising Money for Startups in a Down Market” with Venture Capitalist David Travers of Rustic Canyon in conjunction with DealMaker Media. The event is free and will hold about 100 folks, it will sell out, but we will have a waiting list. [...]

Here is a helpful list of venture debt providers that was put together by our kickass new VP of Business Development Robyn Ward. Venture Debt Providers – Get more Business Plans And here is a a helpful presentation on Venture Debt: venture-debt-analysis

In the world of blogging, twittering, anytime/everytime social media updates, personal brand building has become big online.  One great example is Shira Lazar.  She recently combined her personal website (that mostly focused on her hosting career) with her entertainment blog, and added in a dash of mashups and social media to launch the new ShiraLazar.com [...]

I recently did an interview with Vince Thompson for the Dog and Pony Show on the BNET network. We talked about building out the largest repository of professional documents on docstoc, what its like to run a startup, and a little bit of self help entreprenerus (i used to be a motivational speaker ). Here [...]

Microsoft launched a new program today for startups called BizSpark. Apparently they are giving away lots of software and other services / products for upcoming technology startups that meet certain criteria, for more information check the Techcrunch Post. You need to be referred into the program so I called up our good friends at DealMaker [...]

Its election day! Obama has been ahead in most aggregate voting polls and electoral voting polls.  Here is what the pundits think of the electoral map today and how it will play out.  We’ll check back in tomorrow as a Monday Morning Quarterback to see how accurate they were in their election map. Election Map [...]