It's official. As of Monday, May 25, I'm no longer the Entrepreneurs Guide at About.com. You can read the full story and more about what's next for me on my personal blog.

Institutional Investor reports on a range of startups trying to create platforms for investors to connect online with hedge fund managers.
 
Members-only Web sites with names like CapIntro.com, HedgeACT.com and HedgeConnection.com promote their online offerings as an alternative to real-world meet and greets. They argue that capital introduction - the practice, traditionally performed by prime brokers Read More...

UPDATE: I'm not sure which is worse, a bug or a security hole (for the record, I never thought twtAd did this intentionally), but according to twtAd they were hacked and that caused ads to be sent out on several people's accounts without their approval. Also, just for clarification, twtAd is not the same as TwittAd, and the Read More...

For our research project on VC/private equity deal origination, Renny Monaghan of Salesforce pointed me to a 2008 Dreamforce panel on Asset Managers and How They Power Their Businesses with Salesforce CRM.  The video and Powerpoint are downloadable here.  My notes follow.

I think the most interesting point came from Erik Yewell, who said, "We don't Read More...

Mark Cecil, Conference Manager, Buyouts Magazine, wrote a brief poem for introducing my talk at next week's ACG Intergrowth.  I don't think I'll use the poem (it's not my style) but I liked it so much I had to post it.
 
The Evolution Of Networking..a poem
 
First there were golf links.
Now there are the web links. Read More...

I enjoyed presenting yesterday at the Association for Corporate Growth Due Diligence Symposium on "Squeezing Blood from a Stone: How to Elicit Maximum Information in Minimum Time from Management and Industry Sources".  Contact me if you'd like a copy of the slides.  As always, I welcome feedback.