This post is a bit more thinking out loud than usual but I am grappling with what I perceive to be a big change in the startup landscape. Here are s...

This post is a bit more thinking out loud than usual but I am grappling with what I perceive to be a big change in the startup landscape. Here are s...

Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because t...

Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because t...

There has been a flurry of posts about Google’s acquisition of Sparrow. As I was reading the posts, I felt that a couple of important points were mi...

There has been a flurry of posts about Google’s acquisition of Sparrow. As I was reading the posts, I felt that a couple of important points were mi...

This is the first entry in my Scylla and Charybdis Series of blog posts. In case you missed the introduction, the idea is that startups are hard bec...

This is the first entry in my Scylla and Charybdis Series of blog posts. In case you missed the introduction, the idea is that startups are hard bec...

This is the second post in my Scylla and Charybdis series on why startups are quite so hard. Up today: hiring. Here you can go wrong by hiring too ...

This is the second post in my Scylla and Charybdis series on why startups are quite so hard. Up today: hiring. Here you can go wrong by hiring too ...

Last night I went to a fundraiser for Venture for America here in New York. I am happy to report that the place was hopping and hopefully a lot of m...

Last night I went to a fundraiser for Venture for America here in New York. I am happy to report that the place was hopping and hopefully a lot of m...

Europe had three elections on the weekend: presidential in France, parliamentary in Greece and regional in Germany. The results are strongly anti-in...

Europe had three elections on the weekend: presidential in France, parliamentary in Greece and regional in Germany. The results are strongly anti-in...

I have written about the topic of prioritization before, but maybe with a title that was too oblique – “Applying Engineering Business: Binding Constr...

I have written about the topic of prioritization before, but maybe with a title that was too oblique – “Applying Engineering Business: Binding Constr...

Today one of our portfolio companies is holding their internal management training in our offices. They have asked me to talk a little bit about my ...

Today one of our portfolio companies is holding their internal management training in our offices. They have asked me to talk a little bit about my ...

I have started a series of posts which I called Scylla and Charybdis – or why startups are hard. The idea is that on pretty much anything you can err...

I have started a series of posts which I called Scylla and Charybdis – or why startups are hard. The idea is that on pretty much anything you can err...