Rory O'Driscoll, Author at Scale Venture Partners

Facebook is Worth More Because It’s Growing More

The Old Gray Lady is worried about a bubble in tech, and did a nice graphic comparing the valuations of Facebook...

Venture capital returns are going up. That is the clear conclusion from two recent press releases...

I simply love Goldman Sachs. The Facebook deal is a brilliant poke in the eye for just about everybody...

The most basic question anyone should have of us is what kind of deals do we like to do?

Venture has lots of rules of thumb, short summaries of received wisdom passed down. One of the most common is "never do a COO search".

In every technology market, the number one player gets disproportionately rewarded.

Entrepreneurs, especially experienced ones, often have a fairly jaundiced view of venture board members.

In the last post on this topic, I said that a simple calculation of sales efficiency, which we called the Magic Number.