Bobby Voicu

The Most Helpful Advice I Have Read

“If you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it.”

• Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn

How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch

I think every entrepreneur makes these mistakes at least once in their lifetime.

For those of you that don’t have an amazing excuse (like you will be put in jail if you do this), please launch an early prototype. Not waiting to launch is, by far, the best advice I can give. Hopefully you’ll listen more than we did.

Illegal New York Poker Clubs: A Former Waitress Reveals What Goes on Inside - The Daily Beast

Not the image you expect from such a menacing title. Interesting read, nevertheless.

Top 10 Technology VCs Online

Social media and other online channels are increasingly driving the influence, reach, and ultimately the success of today’s venture capitalists. Whether through blogging or tweeting, podcasting or networking via professional communities on LinkedIn, the Web provides powerful opportunities for venture capitalists to interact with entrepreneurs and the world.

For this report, OpenView examined what it deemed to be the top technology-focused venture capital firms in the United States. We then compiled a list of 28 venture capitalists to analyze for the report by examining their use of three social media tools: blogs, Twitter, and Quora. The result was a ranking of the 10 most influential venture capitalists online overall, as well as the top five using each of these tools. Importantly, the report also looks at the techniques these leading venture capitalists use to fuel their success online.