“Being at or near the the top of your organization, everyone wants a piece of you. So they send you e-mail. It makes you feel important. Don’t you love it? Really? Then, please take some of mine! Over 100 real e-mails come in each day. At three minutes apiece, it will take five hours just to read and respond. Let’s not even think about the messages that take six minutes of work to deal with. Shudder. I’m buried in e-mail and chances are, you’re not far behind. For whatever reason, everyone feels compelled to keep you ‘in the loop.’”

“Over the next few of weeks, I’m going to post my version of ‘The Ten Commandments’ for Entrepreneurs — my ideas of the 10 most important ‘procedural’ things to keep in mind when you approach a VC. These insights, for whatever they’re worth, stem from nearly 20 years as a lawyer who represented entrepreneurs seeking VC funding, as well as 6+ years now on the other side of the table as a VC evaluating funding pitches.”

“How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride. Insiders were cashing out millions, while faithful investors were left with pennies.”