Connie Loizos

Smart PR for Opus Capital

The American Small Business League: We Could Care Less What VCs Think

Flickr Co-founder Caterina Fake Passed on VC Job

The U.S. Government's "Access to IQ" Problem

Found! Jim Clark

USA Today Writes Lovingly Rendered Profile of Draper Fisher Jurvetson

The DFJ Story is one that someone publishes at least once a year. (I took my turn in 2005.) Still, if you care anything about the firm, this piece is worth a read.

Advanced Equities Financials' Founders Fight Back. Sort of.

TechCrunch Hosts Surprisingly Lame Interview with Venture Capital Hotshots

As SBIR Bill Winds Its Way Through the Senate, Outcome Remains Unclear

It’s looking like the Small Business Innovation Research program will be retooled this month when authorization for the program in its current form ends. Whether VCs will be happy with the end result remains to be seen.

How to Raise Money from Angel Investors Like Ron Conway

The TechCrunch 50 conference is happening right now in San Francisco, and I just watched a really terrific panel discussion with Ron Conway (one of Google's first backers), Israeli entrepreneur-turned-investor Yossi Vardi (his biggest hit was IM company ICQ), Google executive-turned-investor/advisor Chris Sacca, Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills.com) and David Kidder, a (serial entrepreneur who recently founded the online advertising startup Clickable). Rather than analyze what was said, I'm just transcribing some of the conversation, as best I was able to jot it down (the old typing skills aren't what they once were). Hopefully, you'll find it as instructive as I did.