http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:14:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 12th Annual MIT VC Conference is fast approaching – only about one month left!  As a co-chair of this year’s conference, it’s an exciting and challenging time.   We’re working hard to make this a great event. One of the first tasks as conference organizers was to select the conference theme.  ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=22 The following has been written by Jeff Bussgang, Partner at Flybridge, and moderator for the Regulations panel at the 11th MIT VC Conference, and taken from his blog Seeing Both Sides at http://www.bostonvcblog.typepad.com "Many pundits and economists observe that we are in the midst of the greatest financial crisis since the ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=21 The CleanTech panel at this year’s conference will be organized along the same lines as the popular sports talk show “Pardon the Interruption” (PTI). The session is organization into the following: • Rapid fire round 1. 15 min duration with 2 min for each question. • Five good minutes. The ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=20 Hello, we are first year MBA students at MIT Sloan and part of the organizing team at this year’s VC conference. As we reach the final stages of preparation for the conference, we are very excited about it! Our role in this conference is to manage one of the panels ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=19 Now what?  The country has its new president (elect), the economy is correcting itself, (sorry, you’re right, it’s contracting itself), and all the corrupt managers who played with my home mortgage, my friend’s student loan, and your job, are going to be prosecuted soon (a growing economy for the lawyers, ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=16 Every year the MIT VC conference gets better and it's amazing to see how a group of students busy with their full MBA schedule are able to pull off an event this size. When I met with Irina and Bennett in Sep during a brief campus visit, it was amazing ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=12 The Conference is only five days away and I couldn't be more excited. I'm a second-year MBA at Sloan and a former Founder of five startups with my sixth in development. I know many entrepreneurs, especially students, face the question, "Do I really have time for another Conference?" To best ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=10 I am a second year MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management and am a lead organizer for this year's conference. With less than 2 weeks to the conference, I am very excited about the conference! The preparations for the conference started over 6 months ago. But the bulk of ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=11 I enjoyed Scott Kirsner's post on fund size, "Big vs. Small". Here's a good rule of thumb for entrepreneurs: early-stage VCs should have $40-60m in capital per general partner per fund. The math goes like this:  VC general partners do 1.5-2 deals per year over the four year investment period of ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=9 One of the more interesting debates in the Boston VC world right now is whether fund sizes are getting too big. (Remember the last time we had this debate...? It was the late 1990s, and Pets.com was delivering cartons of dog food across the country at negative margins. Those were ... http://www.mitvcconference.com/blog/?p=8