article thumbnail

Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards

TechCrunch

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your foundersboards. Other VCs accuse us of being very active and very engaged — but the flip side of it is they vote on boards. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

board 100
article thumbnail

The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

ventures 545
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Embracing the Circular Economy: One EO Entrepreneur’s Story

Entrepreneurs' Organization

James Kilkelly is founder and CEO of Tellerex , a company that enables its customers in the banking and banking technology industry to manage their ATM assets in a secure, compliant and environmentally responsible manner. Their metals, plastics and circuit boards can be separated and reused for other products. He joined EO in 2004.

article thumbnail

Mali Rising Foundation Works to Empower Youth Through Education

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. Fred Johnson is an EO Global Board member, founder of Eagle Environmental, Inc. ,

education 130
article thumbnail

The Importance of Local Media to Boost Startups in Rising Cities

Revolution

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most. Lastly, all politics is local.

media 100
article thumbnail

Feature Friday: Megan Burton, EO Atlanta

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Megan is a pioneer in the IT security industry and founded CoinX, a fintech company that specializes in domestic and international payment processing and transfer services (money transmission), in 2004. As the CEO and founder, Megan is known for her ability to push the envelope in security and risk management technology.

article thumbnail

Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.