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Hiring an Associate at Bessemer 13 Mar 2012 | 10:58 am
We are looking to hire an Associate to join me and my colleague Jeremy Levine at Bessemer. This is a Silicon Valley-based opportunity, though we anticipate that it will involve frequent and extended ...
The Developer Renaissance 5 Jan 2012 | 01:20 pm
What an exciting time to be in this business. The “post PC era” and cloud computing are colliding to create a perfect storm. First, thanks to the post PC era, demand for software is exploding. Second...
Holding your hand to the fire 24 Nov 2011 | 02:47 am
Several months ago, I wrote a post about the four stages of learning. Implicit in the transition out of stage 1, the "enthusiastic beginner", is the fact that to really learn something, you need to t...
Can product "disruption" become a new paradigm? 17 Oct 2011 | 12:12 pm
Facebook is an incredible company, and it’s incredible for many, many reasons. But one of the things that most impresses and amazes me is Facebook’s relentless reinvention. The company has disrupted i...
Are you a vitamin, a painkiller… or a drug? 21 Jul 2011 | 05:17 am
It’s become commonplace to describe products as either painkillers (“need to have”) or vitamins (“nice to have”). Painkillers are products that address existing needs/pain points. Companies selling pa...
2011 is the year entrepreneurship went global 24 Jun 2011 | 01:58 pm
Entrepreneurship is flourishing everywhere. Not just in the US, not just Israel, not just China. Everywhere. The world wide web always held the promise of a flat world, but the startup world is finall...
Accomplishment Arbitrage 24 May 2011 | 01:55 pm
I've noticed there is a fair amount of what I'll call "accomplishment arbitrage" taking place regularly in the tech world right now. "Accomplishment arbitrage" occurs if someone refers to an accompli...
Stop calling Groupon “social commerce”. 21 Apr 2011 | 02:14 am
There is a lot of enthusiasm and attention around “social commerce” right now. People point to companies like Groupon, Living Social, ShoeDazzle and others as examples of the promise of a new generati...
A big thank you to the Cornerstone OnDemand team! 18 Mar 2011 | 08:44 am
Four and a half years ago, I started digging into the software as a service space, pursuing an investment roadmap that Bessemer was very excited about. Early on, I came across Cornerstone OnDemand. ...
Prediction: Facebook is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups [but it will be for a while] 7 Mar 2011 | 03:14 pm
Chris Dixon is causing (surprise surprise :) a bit of an uproar with his blog post "SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups." Chris's post is overstated but what I agree with is tha...
