I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Use the lesson I was taught many years ago: A, B, C (answer, bridge, communicate). Congratulations.  What could go wrong?  A lot, actually.  Does that sound ok?&#. MORE >>

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Or your last boss from Google, Facebook or Yahoo! In the “c&# case let me point out the following. I do not. MORE >>

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York.  Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.  Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites).  InviteMedia (acquired by Google). MORE >>

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. Google suddenly makes your product category free). There are trade offs. MORE >>

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the latest startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, announced today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. Ryan and Chad Steelberg are best known for their sale of dMarc to Google in 2006. BAT operates a celebrity endorsement and marketing firm. READ MORE>>. MORE >>