As an investor in Yelp, I was delighted to discover this blog post by Peggy Wynne Borgman, the owner of Saratoga Spa. In it, she admits to ranting about the dark side of user generated content for months before recently changing her tune and “falling in love” with Yelp.Initially, I wondered: why the sudden change of heart? Had a savvy business person at Yelp managed to bribe Peggy into becoming a

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we must have been dead on in our list of the Top Five Venture Capital Firm Web Pages. In a very bizarre case documented by Dan Primack of peHUB, Sequoia Capital is suing ComVentures for copyright infringement of its website:

Last Saturday, Venture Voice show producer Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell dropped in on the Community Next: The Present and Future of Online Communities conference held at Stanford University. Here are some of his musings on day:

When: February 10, 2007
Where: Stanford University
What: Venture Voice producer Kosh Mayer-Blackwell will be at Community Next looking for social network entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who use social networks. The conference is organized by the always-entertaining Noah Kagan and features some past Venture Voice guests as speakers including Premal Shah and Guy Kawasaki.