Recently I sat down with the terrific Mike Brown, Jr., one of the Founders and a Partner at AOL Ventures, the VC arm of AOL which focuses on Seed and Series A non-strategic investing in tech-oriented consumer internet companies. Mike comes to AOL Ventures from the...

Welcome to this week's conversation with Jordy Leiser, CEO of STELLAService, one of the most intriguing and sought-after venture-backed startups in NYC. STELLAService rates the customer service performance of online stores and was recently featured in AdAge (here) and on TechCrunch (here)....

This is part of my ongoing Series on Getting From Zero to One.

You have been refining and cultivating your map almost daily by now. The exercise has not been in vain. Steadily you approach the time when you will launch your new business. You are...

This is part of my ongoing Series on Angel Investing.

As we all know by now, all the major-league superangels have pretty much raised their own small funds of late. Conway's got

This is part of my ongoing Series on Mentorship.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about mentorship and mentorship programs of late. In that I provide...

This mapping project evolved from a late night a few months ago when I first decided to map-out the Silicon Alley early-stage investor ecosystem. I wanted to provide a resource for entrepreneurs wherein they would be able to actually see the entire venture ecosystem in one glance.

Due to...

This is part of my ongoing Series on Angel Investing.

Mark Suster, one of the best VC bloggers out there, recently put out his own five-part series on Angel Investing. As usual, (despite running a big VC fund, Launchpad L.A., hosting This...

John Kluge, entrepreneur extraordinaire and one of the great benefactors to Columbia University, the University of Virginia, and the Library of Congress has passed away.

Of modest means and son to a family of immigrants from Germany, (where he himself was...

This is part of my various series on Venture Capital, Angel Investing and Entrepreneurial Culture.

It all started when it occurred to me that we were missing a nice visual map of Silicon Alley's early-stage...

This is part of my ongoing Series on University Entrepreneurship.

Recently an entrepreneur/investor/blogger extraordinaire I admire by the name of Chris Dixon touched on the two general paradigms people/institutions can adopt towards one another when conducting business. He first referenced the transactional/legalistic...