Another Texas VC

Kellogg is a great school, the best business school in the world according to many sources. One of the things that set Kellogg apart from other business school is our GIM program. The Global Initiative in Management brings groups of Kellogg students to every corner of the planet for a student run and organized trip [...]

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Today I was startled to get a bounce-back on a routine email to Randy Woelfel, Energy Director at the Houston Technology Center. Randy has accepted the COO role at Cereplast, a bio-plastic company in California. I had the pleasure of helping Randy with the organization of the Energy Technology VC Conference, and saw first-hand how [...]

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Several people have asked me how to break into VC. That’s a tough question on many levels because there is no one recipe to get into the industry. Prominent VCs are former lawyers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, consultants, bankers, and engineers. But because so many people are asking I will try to answer the question. I’ll answer [...]

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Last night I read a post by Neil Savage at Xconomy talking about how Web 2.0 investments may be peaking based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. Although I find the discussion about Web 2.0’s maturity to be incredibly interesting (disclosure, I am co-chairing a panel on Web 2.0 at the Kellogg Private Equity Conference), [...]

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Last week I got to sit down for an hour with David Hornik of August Capital as a part of the Kellogg VC Trek. David was a blast, giving us the inside scoop at the Silicon Valley VC Fund that launched companies like Microsoft, Intel, and Sun.   A few things struck me about the [...]

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