July 31, 2009

Adam Smith – The Wealth of Lawyers

Adam Smith may have written the Wealth of Nations and been a seminal economist underpinning our capitalist thinking, but evidently his name-saked website about law firms doesn’t understand crap about ...
19 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations, Law Firm 2.0 | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 29, 2009

FirstDocs is Now Brightleaf

Back in January, we invested in a company called FirstDocs.  Essentially, it was an investment in the Law Firm 2.0 thesis that I’ve been blogging about.  I’m pleased to announce ...
5 Comments » | Posted in: Foundry Group Investments, Law Firm 2.0, Venture Capital | Posted by: Jason Mendelson

Some Lawyers (and Their Clients) Continue to Suck – Now Suing Twitter Users

My favorite IT guy, Ross Carlson clued me on a recent lawsuit whereby a landlord is suing their tenant over a tweet whereby she besmirched their name. The tenant tweeted that ...
4 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations, Law | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 23, 2009

New Techtars TV – And a Great "Set up"

The latest TechStars TV is out.  Not to be missed is David Cohen setting up the Everlater guys.  He completely convinced them that some cute girls thought that Nate and ...
No Comments » | Posted in: TechStars | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 20, 2009

Should Venture Capitalist Sell Out To Secondary Firms?

Every once in a while, I read something and go "huh?"  The most recent was the report that 52.9% of venture capitalist think that VC is broken. Per my post, ...
8 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations, Venture Capital | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 13, 2009

I Guess That I’m a Slave to My Cat

According to a recent report, cats control humans.  As I’ve hypothesized for many years (being a caretaker of a stray cat), their purr is not so much a “I’m happy ...
6 Comments » | Posted in: Pets | Posted by: Jason Mendelson

I Like Offensive Puppets

I like offensive puppets.  I think Team America World Police is one of the funniest movies that I’ve ever seen.  As an aside, the fact that the original cut of ...
3 Comments » | Posted in: Just For Fun, Technology | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 10, 2009

The Machine That Goes Bing

On the news that Bing is overtaking Yahoo! for position in search rankings, I’ve decided to spend the next month going "bing."  Call me a bandwagon fool.  I’m only going ...
4 Comments » | Posted in: Technology | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 9, 2009

Dating Deal Flow

Off my recent post about where VCs find their portfolio companies, one reader (Valto Loikkanen) sent me the following: "Knowing you like to compare startup/vc relationship/meeting to ‘dating’ etc. I just ...
2 Comments » | Posted in: Just For Fun | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
July 7, 2009

Where Do Venture Capitalists Find Their Companies?

I’ve received a few emails recently asking me where VCs find their investment companies.  I can’t speak for all firms, but if I look over the past 10 years of ...
20 Comments » | Posted in: Venture Capital | Posted by: Jason Mendelson

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