A friend of mine was visiting this weekend. She just got engaged and we were sitting around talking about wedding plans and our other friends who recently got married. One of them is an uber-successful career woman, someone who has always been very ambitious. My friend who was visiting said...

* I've quit many jobs I hated and many of those were for the wrong reasons
* I've not quit two jobs for some of the reasons I list below and I think it was the right thing for my career

Now that we got that over with,...

One expression that I hear frequently now that I am an entrepreneur is: Don't take it personally.

I've heard this from several entrepreneurs, investors, coaches, friends, family, you name it. Usually it comes up in a conversation where I talk about a difficult issue or challenge I am facing, or...

One of the most unexpected benefits of starting my own company has been the chance to meet and form virtual friendships with some incredible, smart, inspiring, and gutsy women entrepreneurs. When I started my career in venture capital I thought that I would find many women entrepreneurs to back....

Before becoming an entrepreneur I worked with many of them closely for five years. I watched them start, grow, exit, ruin, and shut down their companies. You'd think there would be few things about starting a company that would surprise me. You would be wrong.

During my still-very-short tenure...

I've been an entrepreneur for a far shorter time than I was a venture investor. But I already know that I should have arranged these two phases of my career in reverse. I would have been a much better venture investor if I started and ran my own company first...

Before starting my own company, I worked as a Managing Director with an early-stage venture capital firm in New York. I had no previous venture experience when I joined them and the first thing I did was look for a professional network to join. I needed to make business contacts,...

A few weeks ago I quit my job as a managing director with a venture firm to launch my own company and become a full-time entrepreneur. This was the scariest and most exciting career move I'd ever made and before I jumped off the proverbial cliff, I reached out to...