hi folks. I'm now blogging over at 500hats.com, using the medium.com platform. see you around, DMC

This is a very special post for me to write, to congratulate some good friends on a job well done. I first met Rashmi many years back at TagCamp while i was still working at Simply Hired in 2005, then again at Dana Street Coffee in early 2007 when i was consulting for Mint.com. I think Mike Arrington had written one of the very first TechCrunch pos...

i look kinda scruffy in this Fast Company intvw, but it's mostly on target.

i'm not doing much blogging at the moment, as you can probably tell from this site. apologies however i've been kinda busy getting 500 Startups off the ground the past year or two. besides, the commenting system here is crap & i've been overdue on a redesign for about 2-3 years. for some of my more insane / incendiary rants, check out Best of 500 H...

(ok folks, i've gotta take the kids to basketball practice in a few hours, so will try to power through this -- that means limited crazy fonts, profanity, wild pix... sorry little monsters, next time ;) 3 major points i plan to cover in this post: 1) Angel List Fucking Rocks. Period. it's the single greatest innovation in our industry in the last 5...

Passion is what being a startup entrepreneur is all about. Great entrepreneurs are passionate about customers and solving their problems -- so passionate sometimes, that they will take on ridiculous odds to have a shot at fighting Goliath. This video by The Rubberbandits captures it perfectly: (Hey Startups: "I Wanna Fight Your Father!")

Study this chart & map. It's a simple way to think about global economic growth & potential. (excerpted from GigaOm article on the web getting bigger)

jack's life lessons Originally uploaded by iluvpeperothink i fail on #1, #5, #10. most of the others, i do ok. kind of exceptional on #3 and #9, in fact.

TechCrunch just posted the fourth and final GoaP video (see below) from our GeeksOnaPlane Asia 2010 trip (Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), produced by the awesome Ben Henretig at Micro-Documentaries.com, and Kris Krug also included an incredible photo essay of our trip as well. As we wrapup our social media tour of China, South Korea, S...

slides from my new talk on NOT doing a startup, from Seattle Startup Day: Why NOT To Do a Startup. View more presentations from Dave McClure.

Here are slides from my talk at the GROW conference (Vancouver, August 2010) on changes in the venture capital industry. For more info on this topic, read my blog post "Moneyball for Startups". The Lean VC: a Silicon Valley 2.0 Story View more presentations from Dave McClure.

Recent video interview i did over at GigaOm with LizGannes:

500 Startups Originally uploaded by davemc500hats... and BOOM goes the Dynamite.

My apologies... this is a long piece (~2500 words). Not for the faint of heart. If you want the short story, read the abstract below & 3 core assumptions, then cut to the conclusions at the bottom. Abstract: VC funds are getting smaller (good), & angel investors are growing (also good), but both need to get smarter & innovate. Startup costs have co...

slides from my talk on Marketing Metrics at BlueGlassLA: Marketing Metrics 4 Pirates (July 2010) View more presentations from Dave McClure.

slides from my talk at yesterday's EventTechCon conference: Geek Events View more presentations from Dave McClure. (sorry slides are pretty light-hearted; talk was relatively brief, mostly just about lessons learned running geek / tech / startup events over past 10-15 years)

Buddha Temple Singapore Originally uploaded by kk+

Slides from my talk for Echelon 2010 (Singapore): Startup 2.0: a Silicon Valley Story View more presentations from Dave McClure.

Geeks On A Plane ASIA Visit The Great Wall of China Originally uploaded by kk+Awesome. Sauce. that is all. see more #GoaP

HRC & GeeksOnaPlane (Shanghai) Originally uploaded by davemc500hatsthe GeeksOnaPlane.com crew got an amazing & spontaneous opportunity to *briefly* meet with Sec. State Hillary Rodham Clinton (aka "HRC") in Shanghai. i decided to take advantage of the opportunity, and gave HRC a quick elevator pitch on the StartupVisa Movement... and actually caugh...

Geeks On A Plane Shanghai Originally uploaded by kk+awesome kickoff to http://GeeksOnaPlane.com Asia 2010 trip including: - spontaneous StartupVisa mtg with Sec. State Hillary Rodham Clinton - "East Meets West" blogger meetup at USA Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo - *fabulous* dinner Table No.1, The Waterhouse Hotel (pic by @kk)

slides from my talk at Lean Startup Intensive, Web 2.0 Expo: Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (May 2010) View more presentations from Dave McClure.

Dear Hype: I Still Love You Madly -- c u *Real Soon*...

Why Jeremiah Owyang rocks + why Altimeter Group is kicking ass: Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management (blog post) Social CRM: The New Rules (white paper) View more documents from Jeremiah Owyang. (this is also why Forrester shoulda never let the "franchise player" contracts expire on Jeremiah or Charlene)

StartupVisa.com in da HOUSE! (and i really do mean in the House... as in the Houses of Congress) Today, the Startup Visa Posse came to DC to visit several representatives on Capitol Hill to promote awareness for the Startup Visa Act of 2010. People we met with included Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), and staffers for Sen. Lugar (R-...

I ain't Chic, i'm just a Geek. But i can Dance ok. congrats Carol on a great ChicMeetsGeek event

A brief excerpt from my talk at Twiistup in LA last week (thanks Danielle): > (& my apologies to Kathy Sierra & Paul Graham for stealing great content from their talks / posts)

Latest & Greatest re-arranging of deck chairs on the Lean Startup Titanic: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SF, Jan 2010) View more presentations from Dave McClure.

Haven't really gotten on a rant in awhile... guess i've been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i'm back in California for awhile, there's something i've been meaning to bring up that bothers me. It's kind of a dirty little secret of the startup industry, but there are very few good product, design, and marketing people in tech. And hardly ...

J-Geek Dinner #goap #tokyo Originally uploaded by Tokyo Social EventsTo everyone in tokyo: thanks for an AWESOME visit... the last 3 weeks have been terrific! i gotta run to the airport so can't post everything i want to say / everyone i got to see, but look forward to seeing you all again later in May/June for GeeksOnaPlane Asia trip :) #goap #swt...

congrats to fbFund startups PlanCast and Wildfire Interactive on making Robert Scoble's Top 25 Startups to Watch for 2010. here is Robert's interview with founder/CEO Victoria Ransom of Wildfire: (also kudos to Blippy... nice job Pud :)

Below are slides from my talk today at the Hong Kong Cyberport Venture Capital Forum conference. I'll be speaking about angel investing & incubator programs in Silicon Valley, and my experiences managing the FF Angel seed investing program ($2M US, 2009) and fbFund REV incubator program ($850K US, 2009). Startup 2.0: From Silicon Valley to Hong Kon...

here is the latest Startup Metrics for Pirates (Hawaii) preso, from my talk at Rethink Hawaii / Startonomics Hawaii this morning. Note: similar to recent presos at SeedCamp & FoWA, so no amazing innovations here. Just your normal crazy kidnap ransom fonts as usual. Move along folks, move along... Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Hawaii Nov...

Only got to stop in briefly on Thursday afternoon at the always-amazing Virtual Goods Summit by ubermensch Charles Hudson & David Sachs, however i noticed my buddy Benjamin Joffe from Plus8Star did an amazing presentation on the state of virtual goods in Asia, and its impact / explosion in the US: Virtual Goods in Asia View more documents from Benj...

Video from my Startup Metrics for Pirates / Kill a Feature talk @ FOWA London: Start-up Metrics that Matter by Dave McClure from Carsonified on Vimeo.

Slides from my keynote tonight at the 2009 Canada National Angel Summit conf: Startup 2.0: A Silicon Valley Story View more presentations from Dave McClure.

Sometimes we all need a little time to Think. Time to get in touch with our Inner Geek. Time to get in touch with Water, Land, & things Blue-Green. Time to meet friends across the Pacific in the Middle. It's time to... RethinkHawaii.com Come join us Nov 1-5 in Oahu for tech, green, clean, and mean social media... register now using code REDPILL, an...

Over the past 3 years i've been (in order) a user, fan, advisor, and investor in SlideShare. I was first introduced to the product via a TechCrunch blog post, and i've been hooked ever since. Since October 2006 i've posted more than 60 presentations on SlideShare, had over 300,000 views and over 10,000 file downloads, embedded my presentations in n...

Glenn Kelman is a friend and experienced entrepreneur i respect. He presents several reasons i might be wr... wr... wr... wrong. Well, i guess it has happened once or twice before. (COUGH)

Decided to do a different riff on my usual Startup Metrics for Pirates talk at FOWA London 2009. Spent a lot of time on "KILL a Feature!". Slides below: Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA London, Oct 2009) View more presentations from Dave McClure.