Continuations

Yesterday’s piece by Claire Cain Miller in the NYT titled Angels Flee From Tech Start-Ups prompted many blog responses, including one by Roger which also got picked up by Bijan. Here is what it Roger wrote on his blogAre fewer companies getting funded by angels? Of course. Should all the companies that had previously been funded by angels, many of them dabblers, gotten funded? Definitely not. So is value creation in the early-stage space really being inhibited by a dearth of angel investment?...

A few weeks ago, my daughter came home quite distraught from school. “Daddy, the polar bears and penguins are dying and it is our fault” she declared at the dinner table. Having spent many hours admiring the polar bears and penguins at the Central Park Zoo, this was something that all three of our kids immediately agreed was to be stopped. So they wanted to know what could be done about it. We had one of the better dinner discussions in a long time and produced a list of things we would do pe...