Monthly Archives: March 2010

Recession: Just like any other time for a startup, only more so

As soon as things started looking pretty grim in late 2008 I knew it was time to be thinking about starting new companies. At the time it was mainly intuition, and the knowledge that the majority of great companies in existence today were started during down cycles.  I also believe in the platinum rule of “Invest where

The Seed Matters

New startups and ‘seed stage‘ funding are the absolute underpinning of our entire economy. As I observed in my post months back on health care reform, the vast majority of new jobs created in the US are at small and new companies. The easiest way to understand why this is the case is to look at