There are more companies valued at $1 billion+ than there were in 2013. Why? By Aileen Lee (Founder & Partner, Cowboy Ventures) This piece originally appeared on TechCrunch. It’s been over a year since we wrote our original post sharing our analysis of the last...
Once upon a time, one founder got things badly wrong… By Heidi Roizen (Operating Partner, DFJ) This post originally appeared on Heidi’s blog. This is a grim fairy tale about a mythical company and its mythical founder. While I concocted this story, I did...
Master networker Heidi Roizen on what has changed — and what hasn’t — about professional networking in the era of social media. By Loren Mooney (Contributing Editor & Writer, Stanford Business publications) If you don’t know Heidi Roizen personally, and many...
However hard they may be clinging to the past, it’s time for Silicon Valley’s men to wake up to the fact that their boys’ club culture is dying out as the gender gap slowly, but surely, closes. By Vivek Wadhwa (Academic & Author, “The Immigrant Exodus: Why America...
Imagine you haven’t cashed a paycheck in months, and suddenly your startup is offered a route for seemingly easy money. Even if it’s not entirely ethical, what would you do? By Heidi Roizen (Operating Partner, DFJ) At about 6 a.m. on an otherwise uneventful morning,...
