tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-339779 2009-12-14T03:46:00-06:00 By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Network TypePad 33.697268-111.883219 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834560a4c69e20128764f3e34970c 2009-12-14T03:46:00-06:00 2009-12-14T03:46:00-06:00 Tim So, Paul Graham is a brainiac. He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. He writes challenging essays at paulgraham.com (8 million hits it says!) that are...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?a=0hYgelbs3Pc:lIViiqvQHgY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/noJW/~4/0hYgelbs3Pc" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.timkeane.org/2009/12/starting-startups.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834560a4c69e20120a5cdadb5970b 2009-10-08T09:59:07-05:00 2009-10-08T09:59:07-05:00 Tim The October 7th announcement of the sale of Wisconsin-based Prodesse for $60 Million is great news on many fronts. For the Medical College of Wisconsin, who had a 1% stake, there's an immediate payoff. And, assuming that the original science...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?a=sewIDi1HoIw:-pAF06MJBtY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/noJW/~4/sewIDi1HoIw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.timkeane.org/2009/10/congratulations-to-prodesse-and-tom-shannon.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834560a4c69e20120a5e5701b970c 2009-09-22T17:47:42-05:00 2009-09-22T17:47:42-05:00 Tim No. I have, twice in the last week, listened to "haven't really been there, but have talked about it" types expound upon how they work with aspiring entrepreneurs (some of them students) and "really make them sweat." They gleefully tell...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?a=TN-mhhP7mlY:LET0KlPm_dk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/noJW/~4/TN-mhhP7mlY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.timkeane.org/2009/09/does-the-world-need-tough-entrepreneurial-coaches.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834560a4c69e20120a5d137ec970c 2009-09-17T15:23:27-05:00 2009-09-17T15:23:27-05:00 Tim I'm just reading a post from Wisbusiness.com by Joe Kremer of the Wisconsin Angel Network. (WAN is a trade group of angel organizations in Wisconsin; I'm on their board.) Joe, a friend and colleague, is writing about the "great deals"...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?a=-gwvTTx7dtk:2eP0-hAWXQw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/noJW/~4/-gwvTTx7dtk" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.timkeane.org/2009/09/risk-and-valuation.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834560a4c69e20120a560402c970c 2009-08-20T13:35:13-05:00 2009-08-20T13:35:13-05:00 Tim Take a look at this article from the August 20th Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It seems to me this may be a sign of the economic times. Or, of course, it's possible that Jason Weaver (who I know - and I...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?a=QPeRHDC_TUI:zV3dWsaTAEQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/typepad/noJW?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/noJW/~4/QPeRHDC_TUI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.timkeane.org/2009/08/are-investors-unreasonable-right-now-.html