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Welcome Reid Hoffman to the VC Side of the Table

First came the announcement earlier in the year that Marc Andreessen was joining the ranks of "capital" -- a welcomed defection from "labor." And now my friend Reid Hoffman has jumped into the fray as well, joining Greylock Partners in their new fund (although he is not quite...

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VentureBlog — Before yesterday

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Lessons from Rajeev Motwani's and Craig Johnson's Lives

In the past three weeks, I have attended 2 memorial services and 2 brises. The brises celebrated the births of two future superstars -- the sons of four of the smartest entrepreneurs and venture investors in the Bay Area. The memorial services celebrated the lives of two recently deceased super...

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VentureBlog — October 12

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Pen and Paper are Mightier Than the Laptop

Relatively recently I hosted a meeting of the advisors to one of my portfolio companies. It was an impressive group of tech veterans. Each of them had been involved in the building of multi-million dollar high tech companies. Yet, what struck me about this summit was how many of these computer...

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VentureBlog — September 29

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Fueling the IPO Fire? or Burning it Out?

This weekend I was reading a blog post written by Chris Douvos. Chris is an investor in a number of well-known venture firms and writes a blog called Super LP. His commentary always cracks me up, even when he's writing about the finer points of risk curves, financial models and the like. I...

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VentureBlog — September 21

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Venture Capitalist At Your Service

When I first became a Venture Capitalist, I had been a practicing attorney and my partner Dave passed on the somber news that he believed there was a good chance that I would fail at the venture business. He explained to me that lawyers were "agents" and Venture Capitalists were "...

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VentureBlog — September 08

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Goodbye Travel Book, Hello iPhone

I've just returned from a trip to Paris with my family and have to say that I found the use of my iPhone on the trip pretty transformative. For those of you who haven't travelled as a tourist in a foreign city before the iPhone, it used to go something like this -- buy a travel book (or two or t...

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VentureBlog — August 12