March 12, 2010

Are PR People Becoming the New Spammers?

Is it just me or are you receiving a lot more emails that look like this: Hi Jason, Wanted to make you aware of the below funding announcement just released regarding a ...
4 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
March 3, 2010

NVCA Argues Against Parts of the “Restoring American Financial Sustainability Act”

Today, I received notice that the NVCA has formally rejected two parts of this lengthy-titled bill.  (You just have to love the names they put on these bills).  Don’t let ...
6 Comments » | Posted in: Entrepreneurship, Financings, Frustrations, Policy | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
January 5, 2010

PAY YOUR !*?@!%! LAWYERS!!!

Happy New Year.  I’m back. I’ve decided 2010 is the year that I admit my Law Firm 2.0 thesis is wrong.  I blew it.  BigLaw is alive and well – perfectly ...
3 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations, Law Firm 2.0, Venture Capital | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
November 24, 2009

Senator Dodd – Making it harder for small businesses to get funded

Several of my Seattle friends pointed out that Senator Dodd has proposed changes to the regulations that govern angel and VC investments. Every time a VC or angel investor participates ...
9 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations, Law, Technology | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
October 22, 2009

Oppose Bailouts for Venture Capital Investors

As the Obama administration starts to talk about propping up small businesses with the next phase of the bailout, I’ve begun hearing noise from some venture capitalists and angel investors ...
1 Comment » | Posted in: Frustrations, Policy, Venture Capital | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
September 21, 2009

An Open Letter to Mr. Obama on Innovation Policy

Dear Mr. President, I feel compelled to write you a letter to express my thoughts and frustrations regarding innovation policy in our country.  While I have modest expectations that you’ll actually ...
16 Comments » | Posted in: Entrepreneurship, Frustrations, NVCA, Patents / IP, Technology, Venture Capital | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
September 9, 2009

Great Article on Intellectual Ventures (sucking)

For those of you who share my disgust with the current patent ecosystem, here is a great piece from Timothy B. Lee on “Intellectual Ventures.” I use quotations, because it’s nearly ...
13 Comments » | Posted in: Frustrations, Patents / IP | Posted by: Jason Mendelson
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

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 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

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