Tech
What the platforms are doing to us — and what an operator of 25 years makes of it.
November 5, 2018
How to Avoid Investor Disconnect When Pitching
I recently was asked to judge a pitching competition for CannInvest NJ. The format was familiar; each participant was given eight minutes to pitch their business idea to a panel of…
May 27, 2015
Continual Partial Attention
We live in a connected world, and it is a wonderful world. Twenty years ago it would have been hard to fathom that every bit of information we need could be found by clicking an ap…
April 30, 2014
5 Things You Can Do Today to Save Money on Diligence Later
A company whose board I serve recently decided to accept an offer to be acquired. About one third of the way through the due diligence period, I checked in with legal counsel to se…
April 4, 2014
Pinpointing Problems Worth Solving (Part Three of Three)
In part two of this series I wrote about how I believe that founding CEOs who are deep domain experts are the best at getting to product-market fit in a capital efficient way. I pr…
March 19, 2014
Pinpointing Problems Worth Solving (Part Two of Three)
In my last post, I wrote about how many startups fail because they try solving problems no one really has or cares enough about to spend money to solve. I mentioned that while poor…
December 13, 2013
Pinpointing Problems Worth Solving (Part One of Three)
One of my favorite blog posts is Paul Graham's How to get startup ideas. Paul is one of my top-five bloggers, along with Marc Suster, Ben Horowitz, Nir Eyal, and of course Fred Wil…
November 4, 2013
The Undervalued Witness to History
During my 20 years as an operating executive, when I would interview a job candidate I would often think: