The IPO is dead! Long live the IPO!
Sarbanes-Oxley: The IPO Maven’s MacGuffin? About a month ago the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that blamed the dearth of IPOs on Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 law enacted in response to the...
View ArticleBook Reviewish Substance: The Startup Game, ch. 1-2
I’m making my way through the canonical* venture/startup literature and thought I’d try out a few different ways of reviewing the books. Epic poetry, rap homage, and Serious Book Review are all on the...
View ArticleWhy is Mark Suster recommending LegalZoom for startups?
Mark Suster, a prominent venture capitalist with GRP out of Los Angeles, runs a fantastic blog and hosts an equally great weekly segment on venture capital as part of Jason Calacanis’s “This Week In”...
View ArticleThe Convertible Debt v. Equity Financing Omnibus
Shortly after I moved to Boulder in mid-August last year I became obsessively interested in the local VC/startup scene. I’d filled my RSS reader with some of the obvious must-read blogs, ordered a few...
View Article“Nobody Else Can Make This Shit”: Alex Blumberg & StartUp Podcast Ep. 1
Episode #1 – How Not to Pitch a Billionaire “So here’s the thing: nobody else can make this shit.” That’s venture capitalist—”VC,” for those of you in the biz—Chris Sacca, adorable verbal tics and all,...
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