The Series A Crunch: Don’t Get Discouraged

Much is being said on a daily basis about the “Series A crunch.” Supposedly, there aren’t enough venture investors to support all the startups winning seed funding these days.... Read more »

The Million Dollar Club

I had two conversations last week, each of which reinforces a simple phenomenon that I have constantly emphasized over the last five years in my writings.

On Wednesday, I had lunch... Read more »

Women ARE Running Startups

There has been tremendous sensationalizing of the women and entrepreneurship issue. Self-proclaimed (male) pundits pontificate on how women entrepreneurs face tremendous obstacles, huge prejudice.

I disagree.

A blog post that I... Read more »

A Wake-Up Call for Angel Investors

[Editor’s note: To tap the wisdom of our distinguished group of Xconomists, we asked a few of them to answer this question heading into 2013: What does your gut tell... Read more »

TrendSpotting: eFood, iEat

The food industry may seem like the last bastion of brick and mortar companies, relying solely on human efforts. Think again. A new crop of entrepreneurs are taking our love of... Read more »

Trendspotting: The Variegated Social Web

The social Web is gradually taking over the Internet. From search to shopping, everything is getting social these days. Time for an overview of what we see in the 1M/1M portfolio... Read more »

Trendspotting: The Era of E-Sharing

From sharing maternity clothing to sharing car rides, this seems to be the era of sharing, and the Internet is playing the role of the grand facilitator. A few people have... Read more »

Small Companies Storm the Edutech Market

Online education is now available for everyone. Parents can home school their children from the moment they start kindergarten until they graduate from high school. Online colleges and universities continue to... Read more »

India vs. Silicon Valley: A SaaSy War

Software as a service (SaaS) probably grew in popularity as quickly as it did thanks to Salesforce.com. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant made the lives of sales professionals much... Read more »

SaaS Spreads to India and Beyond

Software as a service is a thriving and still growing industry with dozens of multi-million dollar companies making their mark around the world. According to Gartner, global spending on the Software-as-a-Service... Read more »

Entrepreneurship Flowers Far Away from Silicon Valley

These days, the media are getting better at reporting on entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. Within Silicon Valley, however, people tend to be somewhat cocky about the region’s place in the entrepreneurship... Read more »

Silicon Valley *Is* a Meritocracy

Of late, there has been talk that Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy, and that it is biased against women, black, and older entrepreneurs. I don’t believe this is true.... Read more »

The Other 99 Percent: Entrepreneurs

In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99 percent of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected.... Read more »

Reengineering Capitalism

In the fading months of 2011, we find ourselves in an uncertain world.

On the one hand, America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, and the nation’s faith in... Read more »

Bootstrapping Our Way Back From the Collapse

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year (along with broader financial markets) the question at the top of my mind has been, “What next?” or maybe, “Where to from here?”... Read more »