Venture Capital

• Stocktwits Raises Series C Round
  Posted by Howard on October 19th, 2010 at 6:05 am, Comments: 81 comments

  We have closed a fresh round of funding with our existing investors led by Foundry and True Ventures. Though we have plenty of capital, we [...]

• Portfolio Updates – Disqus.com/BlogTalkRadio.com and TubeMogul.com
  Posted by Howard on April 25th, 2008 at 11:44 am, Comments: No comments yet

  So much going on at our portfolio companies this week. I don’t know how just 2 guys – Danel and Jason – do it, but [...]

• Disqus Funding… Awesome Social Leverage
  Posted by Howard on March 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am, Comments: 82 comments

  Some of you might have noticed a change in the commenting system for my blog. Its a new company called Disqus that I learned about [...]

• Lotame Raises $10 Million…More Black Licorice!
  Posted by Howard on February 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am, Comments: 2 comments

  My man Andy keeps barelling forward with his vision for ‘CROWD CONTROL’ product from Lotame and now has some more serious financing to roll out [...]

• New Fund Announcement – Knight's Bridge Capital Partners
  Posted by Howard on January 9th, 2008 at 12:02 am, Comments: 23 comments

  I am happy to formally announce my partnership with my good friend and mentor Kenny Finkelstein with Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners . It is an [...]

• Early Stage Venture Investing…How To's and How Not's
  Posted by Howard on November 30th, 2007 at 4:45 pm, Comments: 3 comments

  I have been addicted to early stage investing and entrepreneurship since my late teens. I have kissed many frogs. I have started to get better [...]

• Time to Fade 'Freemium' and 'Biz Dev'?
  Posted by Howard on November 24th, 2007 at 10:43 pm, Comments: 16 comments

  Too much free shit on the web and too many ‘Business Development’ people. If you call someone business development, you are giving them free reign [...]

• Today's Lesson: How to Call a Top!
  Posted by Howard on October 18th, 2007 at 8:30 am, Comments: 2 comments

  It’s easy. Just keep calling for it. I have said China was topping at least twice including yesterday. Josh Kopelman has an excellent post written [...]

• Web Trends…The $100k for My Kid's Education Better Spent on a Their Start-Ups
  Posted by Howard on October 6th, 2007 at 9:27 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  Paul Graham’s essay – The Future of Web Startups – has become pretty viral in the VC and Nerd Community. Rightly so…it’s awesome. Not so [...]

• Tony Conrad on Wallstrip
  Posted by Howard on August 17th, 2007 at 6:10 am, Comments: 1 comment

  Today we have a combo entrepreneur/venture capitalist on Wallstrip. Tony is a Venture Partner of True Ventures Fund (founded by Jon Callaghan, Phil Black and [...]

• Failing Fast and Cheap
  Posted by Howard on March 13th, 2007 at 9:28 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  Josh Kopelman has a great piece about the costs of starting a software company in the internet world . A must read. There are businesses [...]

• Must Read for Start-ups
  Posted by Howard on February 24th, 2007 at 10:18 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Great White North VC blogger, Rick Segal (on my blogroll forever), has a must read post for start-ups issuing shares . Here is the most [...]

• Venture Capital Unplugged ?
  Posted by Howard on December 17th, 2006 at 7:51 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  Humorous and creative look at the Venture Capital business. Thanks to my friend and fellow golf lover Marc for the find:

• Preventing Identity Theft – advice from someone smarter than me!
  Posted by Howard on November 22nd, 2006 at 10:34 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  David Cowan has been on my blogroll from the beginning. His blog is full of great posts on investing, roadmaps and advice for entrepreneurs. I [...]

• Lifelock Gets Venture Funding – from Bessemer – sweet.
  Posted by Howard on November 12th, 2006 at 10:23 am, Comments: 9 comments

  Lifelock , one of my angel investments, closed on approximately $4.5 million in venture funding from Bessemer Venture Partners . Bessemer has a great website [...]