Yesterday a group of students from my alma mater, the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce [http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/], came to visit. They were spending a week in Silicon Valley as part of their spring break. I've long privately urged McIntire to become

As was reported in TechCrunch today [http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/20/sharethis-aims-for-mobile-with-23m-series-c-led-by-t-venture-acquisition-of-social-app-platform-socialize/] , we've just signed a deal to sell our startup Socialize [http://www.getsocialize.com/] to ShareThis [http://www.sharethis.com/]. Although having a successful exit is a dream for many entrepreneurs, I find myself feeling

While I can't speak to the terms of our deal with ShareThis, I'll use the experience to walk you through the general framework of a deal process, so you understand the multiple steps involved. What I'm going to share is not a reflection of

This post is a work in progress, since we’re just now selling our company Socialize to ShareThis. I also wrote about how the experience feels [http://danielodio.com/socialize-is-being-acquired-by-sharethis-heres-what-the-experience-is-like] , and what getting a deal done is like [http://danielodio.com/selling-socialize-to-sharethis-a-description-of-the-deal-process] . One of my goals is to ensure a

Getaround [http://www.getaround.com/] is a car sharing service like Zipcar [http://www.zipcar.com/], except that it uses people's private vehicles instead of a fleet. It's a bit like AirBnB [https://www.airbnb.com/] for cars. Getaround is part of the "collaborative consumption&

The Wall Street Journal has run a series of articles about the app economy this week, identifying the app ecosystem as a $25 billion business [https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323293704578334401534217878.html] . They write: > The apps industry "is like cars at the turn of the last century,"