BY F3FUNDIT The 3F's, Seed Capital, Angel Capital, Venture Capital, Series A, IPO's sounds familiar or does it? Many budding entreprenerus, and especia (Read More)

I ran across an article on YCombinator about being Ramen Profitable.  Thought it would be a good read for everyone.  (Read More)

You've done your leg work, you're business plan's been refined about ten times, but it seems like at least a hundred, and you've spent every weekend wo (Read More)

Earlier this week, the House Financial Services Committee approved the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act by a bipartisan vote of 67-1. (Read More)

One of the major sticking points of starting your own business is the envitable question... "Where do I get the money to do it?" I ask this q (Read More)

After 10 years of building web businesses, I've learned one thing... Business Plans are ALWAYS wrong! I defy anyone who says they have executed their b (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)

Last week, I observed that a model first round stock purchase agreement would do more to serve the cause of efficiency in the startup community -- at l (Read More)

In an earlier post this year about trends in first round financings, I asked the question, "Whatever Happened to the 1x Liquidation Preference?&qu (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)

Investment entities managed by Sequoia Capital had liquidation preferences on their preferred stock investments in Zappos, and those preferences are go (Read More)

John Cook has wondered aloud on TechFlash why Seattle VCs don't blog. But John's blog, at least, appears to be an effective forum for VCs to address me (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)

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)

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)

What follows is an excerpt from mail I received last night from the co-founder of a Web 2.0+ company (client), commenting on my prior "What, No Ex (Read More)

I’m noticing an interesting dialogue emerging over whether Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s plans to extend regulations beyond banks, (Read More)