Topic: Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC

Everything Ventured, What Gained?

Two new "insider" chronicles of the new economy -- messy tales of startup mania -- explode some of the more romantic myths about entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But they don't tarnish the dream.READ»

Ideas Rule, But Cash Is Still King

My Smartest Mistake: John Nordmark discusses the importance of finding your funding.READ»

In the Hot Seat

Who: Danny Shader

Title: CEO

Company: Good Technology

Where: Sunnyvale, CA

Challenge: Develop a better system for delivering enterprise email and access to secure corporate informationREAD»

Twitter on Steroids

Finally! A way to check on what your friends are doing every minute of every day on every social network. That’s FriendFeed. All together now: “We’re not currently monetizing the site.”READ»

• 7 Ways Bret Taylor Uses FriendFeed
• Why Facebook Is Even Bigger Than You Think
• Is Michael Arrington One of the World's Most Influential People?

5 Startups to Watch

At the first-ever Venture Capital in Education Summit, at the end of May, Peter Campbell of private equity firm Generation Partners told the crowd, "A theme you hear from the President is that in the next 12 years, we have to retake ...READ»

• Who Needs Harvard?

Will the Net Bounce Back?

Last year's Internet Summit was full of boasting and banquets. This year's gathering of tech's brightest stars featured mea culpas and buffets. A field report on the past, present, and future of the Internet economy.READ»

Lessons From The Trenches

Activating a customer base with digital tools isn't as easy as it looks. As Chris Hughes showed with both Facebook and Obama, detailed execution is at least as important as strategy. Some examples:READ»

• Boy Wonder
• The Community That Hughes Built

A Cautionary Tale

Rumors of Facebook's refusal to sell to Yahoo set off a chorus of predictions that it would repeat Friendster's fall from grace.READ»

Can Online TV Guide SetJam Pry Viewers From Their Clicker?

In the world of the consumer, competition is a great thing. In the world of the entrepreneur, competition can also be a great thing. In the world of the Internet start-up, however, competition is, without doubt, the snotty tissue ...READ»

How to Play the Talent Game

Colleen Aylward recruits talent for some of the hottest Internet companies around. If you want to win the best people, she says, you've got to understand the new rules of dotcom hiring.READ»

Is Selling Out 'Selling Out'?

Great companies have to make tough choices. Grand Junction Networks and PointCast Inc., two high-flying Silicon Valley startups, faced the question of a lifetime -- and arrived at opposite answers.READ»

Voyage to the New Economy

Executives are leaving the security of big companies for the Internet economy. Should you sign up for the journey? What can you expect once you arrive at your destination? Or have you already missed the boat?READ»

All the Right Connections

The partners at Arts Alliance Ltd., a venture-capital firm, believe that success is about making connections -- between companies and their customers, and between portfolio companies.READ»

Twitter's Investors Missed the Cluetrain - Here's Why

Twitter, the microblogging service that changed everything, hasn't changed all that much argue the four co-authors of The Cluetrain ManifestoREAD»

Built to Scale

The leaders of Netigy are wrestling with a make-or-break question that's been the downfall of many promising startups: How do you get big in a big hurry? The answer: act like you already are.READ»

Company Builder

Atiq Raza was in position to become CEO of one of Silicon Valley's old-guard giants. But he left to create Raza Foundries, a company that helps build other companies. Just don't call it an incubator.READ»