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First ever Philly Summer Tech Dinner 4 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
For several years us Philly folks have been saying, “we need to all meet-up sometime” as we pass each other on USAir or Amtrak. So finally this summer we made it happen. Bullpen and First Round hosted...
Venture Shift is Wednesday – I have a few free tickets available… 14 Jul 2013 | 07:43 pm
We have a few free tickets for the big event on Wednesday. We have an all star line up of speakers and should have a packed house. Email me if you would like to get one of our last tickets. Agenda is...
No, I really DON’T want to see your demo (part 2)… 4 Apr 2013 | 06:21 am
It’s been slightly over a year since I wrote the following post about not wanting to see product demos and I am somewhat amazed how controversial it was. But with a year of extra data I have a few new...
Early Registration for Venture Shift 2013 – July 17 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco 3 Mar 2013 | 03:31 am
Venture Shift 2013 Wednesday, July 17th 3:30 PM – 10:30 PM (PST) Cafe du Nord, San Francisco Venture Shift, hosted by Vator and Bullpen Capital, has become one of the most anticipated events focused ...
Bring Obama’s Tech Targeting to your Startup… 22 Jan 2013 | 11:37 pm
Grassroots Unwired was started 2 years ago by a veteran Democratic political insider named Russ Oster. He was continually amazed to see that the state of the art technology for door-to-door canvassin...
VC Outlook 2013 3 Jan 2013 | 08:20 pm
At our recent LP meeting we presented our view of where the venture capital markets were today, and where we thought they were going. A year ago, most funds had ebullient outlooks, as we were amidst t...
Return of the Series A Crunch 21 Dec 2012 | 09:00 pm
Today’s big VC brands were built by funding start-ups from birth to acquisition, IPO, or death; whichever came first. There were no Y-Combinators and other microVCs. But it isn’t true that “lean” inve...
Tech Crunch gives Bullpen some credit for predicting series A crunch… 21 Dec 2012 | 06:00 am
It’s nice to get credit for spotting a trend before it happens. That said, this was not really a tough one to predict. With the massive growth of the super angel (seed) funds and flat lining of the se...
Series A Cliff 19 Dec 2012 | 09:00 pm
All this chatter of a Series A Crunch makes light of a widening gap that looks more like the jaws of death for many seed funded startups, as the gap between Seed and A is becoming a yawning cliff. As ...
Tello Acquired by Urban Airship 5 Dec 2012 | 07:39 pm
We are very pleased to see that Urban Airship has acquired one of our porfolio companies: Tello. Tello did a masterful job of launching a new product that generated tremendous buzz. Their new offering...
