THE DREAM IN ACTION

When I started this blog I primarily wanted to focus on start-up entrepreneurship and web 2.0.  I’ve done that and I’ve learned a ton from the web, from people seasoned in the industry, and from my own entrepreneurial start-up experiences. However, I’ve realized that I’ve missed one critical piece of this pie, the money! I’ll admit, I really don’t know much about venture capital or angel investing and that is where so many start-ups get their opportunity to “try it out” and see if their product/technology could work.

With that said I’m going to focus some of my reading and studying over the next few months on VC. In the past I religiously read TechCrunch for the latest start-up news and would try to get in as a beta user for every newly launched web start up.  Now, for a few months I’m going to try and focus on the money side. Why do these companies get millions of dollars of funding? How do these companies get millions of dollars of funding? How to the venture capitalists get “paid” in these investments and how can they consistently do it? Who are the best VC’s? And my personal favorite question in studying anything…What are the common factors between the most successful VC’s and start-up investors? I’ve been reading a bunch of VC blogs over the last week as I’ve been thinking about this and I think I’m sold that my new TechCrunch will be Fred Wilson’s blog AVC.com.

Let me say that I’ll definitely still stay up on what is going on in the social media, web 2.0 space. I’ll be writing a column called ‘Growth 2.0‘ in Magazine SOHO (more to come on this) that will focus on using web 2.o for growing a small business and I will need to stay in touch with the latest from the industry in order to write that column successfully. But, in order to truely have an expertise in this industry  I will need to focus on the investment aspect a bit more heavily.  Look for a few more of my posts to discuss VC topics and news and as I understand this aspect better and better I’ll chime in with an opinion here and there. I hope that you’ll enjoy, learn, and contribute to this venture in venture.