We finally did it: we have made our new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, available for free download. Of course, we encourage you to buy the bound book at your local bookstore. It's much easier to read that way (and actually cheaper than printing out the whole [...continue reading]

I recently had a chance to have a conversation with Pamela Walker Laird, a History professor with the University of Colorado at Denver, and author of the new book Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin, a history of strategic relationship-bulding and mentoring in American business, [...continue reading]

I am happy to report that we are relaunching the Nitron Advisors Circle of Experts Brain Food blog from a new home on the Web, http://www.CircleOfExperts.com/blog . Please tell your friends! From that link, you can subscribe with your favorite blog reader (Bloglines, Newsgator, etc.) or get every [...continue reading]

(This was originally written in 2002-03, but still relevant today.) Getting a VC job: fighting upstream By Mark Cicirelli Mcicirelli(at)mba2002.hbs.edu I have compiled what I hope are helpful observations from my job search since finishing my MBA this June.  Be warned that my advice is most [...continue reading]