Today’s Great VC blog post is from Dave Hornik at August Capital.  Dave writes one of the longest running VC blogs (it might be the first, but I don’t keep track of these things) called VentureBlog.  His current post – The Widget Economy – isn’t about VC and entrepreneurship issues, but it does a good […]

Josh Kopelman has today’s best post with “Catch and Release” Business Models.  It even has some pretty charts.  It’s a must read for anyone doing anything with social networks.

Today’s “Great VC Post” comes from Fred Wilson and is on the concept of how a VC thinks about “reserves.”  Fred is very specific in the post about how his firm (Union Square Ventures) thinks about reserves.

Josh Kopelman has today’s Great VC Post up titled The Penny Gap. “The truth is, scaling from $5 to $50 million is not the toughest part of a new venture – it’s getting your users to pay you anything at all. The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free […]

Fred Wilson has today’s Great VC Blog post up with The Loser’s Curse.  Rational or not, some VCs won’t go back into the same swamp after an alligator has taken a chunk out of a body part. 

Ah – two great VC posts in one day – what more could you ask for?  Scott Maxwell of OpenView Venture Partners has an awesome post up titled 10 best ways to lie with metrics.  I’m glad to see Scott blogging again – his MIT background shines through with his critical thinking on any topic […]