Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.”

How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs — Cintrifuse.

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on…

Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos — primarily driven through YouTube.

The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Startups are hard. You’ve heard that a million times. Those that we survive with become family. It’s something you can’t know unless you’ve ever been in the trenches. Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same.

Officially Announcing Bothsides TV

For 2 years I interviewed VCs & founders for a show called This Week in VC. If you want to see any back interviews you can click on that link. I’ve been promising to relaunch a new show for the past 18 months but needed to find somebody to help me with cameras…

Want to Know What Marc Andreessen’s Magic on Twitter is? Hint: It’s Not Tweetstorming

By now almost everybody knows that Marc Andreessen has taken Twitter by storm. By Tweetstorm, that is. Marc seems to single handedly have changed all conventions in Tweeting by…