As part of a package of taxes being considered today by a Washington State legislative committee, the current exemption of custom software from Wa (Read More)

It's too early to find a pattern, but in Episode 2 of Entrepreneur's Prior Lives, Michael Cann treats us with the same candor Joe Harb showed in the ro (Read More)

I'm excited today to launch "Entrepreneurs’ Prior Lives," a podcast brought to you by this blog and by wac6arts.com. The first episode (Read More)

So your venture needs capital, but for one good reason or another, or a combination of them, you are not going to "price" the company and rai (Read More)

My girlfriend and I heard Richard Wilkinson talk yesterday at the Department of Communications building on the University of Washington campus. From&nb (Read More)

The House Financial Services Committee announced today that it had approved a bill called the "The Financial Stability Improvement Act." This (Read More)

The Senate Banking Committee has had an initial hearing to consider Senator Dodd's “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009.” In (Read More)

Joe Wallin, Brian Myers and I have put up a petition concerning the threat to Reg D, an issue about which all three of us have written in recent days ( (Read More)

Under the Securities Act of 1933, any offer to sell securities must either be registered with the SEC or meet an exemption.  Regulation D contains (Read More)

What did we do before Google search? I'll come back to that question below. Let me first report on what's happened in the week since Joe Wallin discov (Read More)

In a comment today to my second post about not-so-goodies buried in the Dodd financial system reform bill, Joe Wallin points out that the Senator is al (Read More)

Chris Matthews said something on his Hardball TV show last night that I found disarming. The set up is what makes the payoff satisfying, so I’ll (Read More)

Twitter announced last week that it had closed a "significant round of funding." News reports, including this one from the NYTimes, anticipat (Read More)

A central theme of this blog has been the way many Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and early stage investors are questioning the venture investment paradigm requ (Read More)

Earlier this week, TheFunded Founder Institute released a model term sheet intended for venture-oriented first round financings. In his post announcing (Read More)

The Orrick law firm has now made a venture capital term sheet creator available on the web, so I thought I'd take it for a test drive and compare it to (Read More)

Along with @sleepless, @timu_matt and @johnclyman, I attended the Naked Truth event at the Olympic Sculpture Park last night, sponsored by Redfin, (Read More)

Because contracts matter, Web 2.0 entrepreneurs will want to publish "terms of use" or "terms of service" (I'll call them "TOS (Read More)

The Treasury Department's whitepaper on financial regulatory reform, released last week, includes a proposal to require venture capitalists to register (Read More)

This post is, in a way, a riff on the recent "Term Sheet Manners" post on Fred Wilson's blog.  My message to entrepreneurs is, "alw (Read More)

Let’s start with the assumption that we all agree startup technology companies should set the exercise price for stock options at fair market val (Read More)

Depending on your point of view, angel investors are either getting more organized, or traditional VCs are moving upstream into angel territory.  (Read More)

One benefit of the economic depression, just starting to reveal itself, is that some startups are able to skip the early adopters and insinuate themsel (Read More)

In a presentation at the MIT Enterprises Forum Venture Lab at One Union Square in Seattle last month, titled “Financing a Start-up in a Downturn, (Read More)

In bullet form below are some quick observations, here at the end of Q1 2009, on how different ventures in the “emerging company” category (Read More)