When you have a $50mm fund with a ‘Seed-stage mandate’ and you’re out there searching for opportunities to deploy capital visibly and quickly, it’s easy to rely …

A few weeks ago, Bhavin Parikh, cofounder and CEO of Magoosh, penned a great note that cautioned Founders about what they should know beforethey raise money from a VC.   Bhavin is …

Founders, I’m with you on this one.  Solidifying the Founder/Investor relationship is hard and I get excited about wanting to immediately see your new company’s logo on …

After much debate, Bee Partners has opened its AngelList Syndicate and will experiment with this exciting new tool available to both investors as well as entrepreneurs.  Here at Bee Partners, …

Yep, I personally reply to every email I get from a founder.  While I’m not quite ready to pledge a response time to those emails, I will …

I hope to add more ‘Bee Partners Pledge’ blog posts over the year, but I’ll start with a lingering frustration with other VC websites: “Bee Partners will …

Today, Tom Post at Forbes wrote a post titled: Are You an Entrepreneur?  In the post, they reposted a survey written by Alana Muller, president, Kauffman FastTrac®.  My quick …

(This post does NOT pertain to fundraising.  If you’re fundraising, avoid naysayers like the plague.) All too often, entrepreneurs are told to find their customer(s) and then …

Today, a founder named Matt (edited for anonymity) dropped by my office to say hi. I left our first meeting a week ago with a positive bias …

I spend most of my time with genesis- and seed-stage entrepreneurs.  But today, I had the opportunity to attend a major technology conference here in SF, and …