(This post co-written with Koen Bremer, Gyorgy Buslig, and Adham Hussein. Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG.  I've also posted this at Betabeat.) Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value [...continue reading]

I'll be a judge for the USI- Trendlines NYC Innovation Road Show (sponsored by the U.S. Israel Business Council (USI) and The Trendlines Group) , Friday, March 30, 2012, 10:30am to 2:30pm. The presenting companies are in Medical Devices, Information Technology, Agritech and Cleantech. For [...continue reading]

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital's approach to building a fitness office. (Thanks Tim!) I've attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we've designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as [...continue reading]

On Monday night I attended a Harvard Business School "Paths Forward" event tied to the March issue of Harvard Business Review, which consists of a wide range of research on How to Increase U.S. Competitiveness. I also contributed a blog post to the HBS Competitiveness website on some initiatives [...continue reading]

I'm delivering a webinar next Tuesday for Harvard Business School Career Services on "How to Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies".  Among the topics I'm covering: - Raise capital from a venture capital fund to found a company - Partner with a private equity fund [...continue reading]