This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. There are multiple firms that did this. What gives?  MORE >>

Entrepreneurial Optimism. After 20 years of building entrepreneurial ventures I have had no choice but to be a devout optimist.  The challenges are overwhelming, the naysayers abound but we as entrepreneurs persist.  The Undeniable Reality. However, we as entrepreneurs most acknowledge the nature of the challenges we face.  if you are lucky!). MORE >>

A few days ago, while I was writing some simple Python scripts, my computer crashed and my (Win Vista) OS became corrupted to the point where my machine would no longer boot. Not knowing the best way to restore my system–and wanting to avoid reinstalling the OS from scratch, if possible–I took my machine to [.]. MORE >>

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and genealogy web site started by David Sacks, was hit by unexpected downtime Tuesday and today, the firm told its users Wednesday afternoon. According to Geni, it had "network difficulties" starting the morning of Tuesday, October 20th, with the firm taking the site down at 3:45PM to investigate. MORE >>

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.  After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company.  My blog was wiped out.  That changed very quickly.  No joke. MORE >>