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)

In the course of a talk yesterday at Reed College, J. Bradford DeLong, UC Berkeley economist and blogger extraordinaire, made (what I took to be compli (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)

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)

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

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)

Some of you who follow my tweets have already heard me comment on a lunch I had a couple of months back, with two long-standing friends who are the sav (Read More)