Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic , Gitlab , and Zapier... | Continue reading
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that t... | Continue reading
Early on as CEO of a technology startup you will need to do 100 tasks that are not existential to the company, but still important that you... | Continue reading
A common mistake that founders make when raising a venture round is to anchor high and ask for too much money, at too high a valuation, w... | Continue reading
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would... | Continue reading
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020 . Over the last 8 months the number of tech startu... | Continue reading
I have found that the two biggest causes of having to fire an employee at an early stage startup are a lack of culture fit , and the inabil... | Continue reading
I met recently with a friend of mine who has been talking about leaving Google for the last 3 years. Every time I see him he says he is jus... | Continue reading
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples ... | Continue reading
US should be roughly done with COVID in 2021 Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a blog post warning the tech community about a new coronavi... | Continue reading
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated p... | Continue reading
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated p... | Continue reading
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets whi... | Continue reading
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market . These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and compani... | Continue reading
Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven , a defense contract. This has led to claim... | Continue reading
Over the life of a startup, 3 archetypes are needed to found, build, and scale a company. It is rare to find someone who is a 10X version of... | Continue reading
Just as every founder seems to have a side angel fund, every late stage investor now appears to have a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Co... | Continue reading
Multiple economic indicators suggests the economy is getting worse. Like Wiley Coyote suspended in mid-air and not yet realizing he is abou... | Continue reading
Last updated: March 11, 2020. Google doc version here. For Feb 28 doc, please see Google Doc or Blog . Its been less than two weeks... | Continue reading
Last updated: Feb 28, 2020. If I add updates, they will be here . (I originally sent this out to founders I know but was encouraged to pu... | Continue reading
Last updated: Feb 28, 2020. If I add updates, they will be here . (I originally sent this out to founders I know but was encouraged to pu... | Continue reading
Startups tend to succeed by building a product that is so compelling and differentiated that it causes large number of customers to adopt i... | Continue reading
As a company scales the number of meetings initially grows faster then headcount. With more people comes more coordination. Most companies ... | Continue reading
A startup CEO recently pinged me about an offer their company had received from a larger, fast growing, breakout company. He did not know h... | Continue reading
Below is a list of products or startups that I am keeping an eye out for. I skipped listing things I wish existed that can *not* be impleme... | Continue reading
In order to sell to enterprises, SaaS startups usually need to add the same 5 core product features. These features allow for a dramatic in... | Continue reading
You know a startup is likely to fail when its product strategy or business plan includes multiple miracles. What Is A Startup Miracle? A ... | Continue reading
Startups are hard. There are a few moments in every startups life that feel magical and make the grind (at least temporarily) worth it. Mag... | Continue reading
"Our direct sales and customer success efforts are focused on larger organizations who have a greater number of users and teams and have t... | Continue reading
Industry towns[1] emerge due to the critical mass of having employees, entrepreneurs, suppliers, business partners, potential customers, an... | Continue reading
Industry towns[1] emerge due to the critical mass of having employees, entrepreneurs, suppliers, business partners, potential customers, an... | Continue reading
Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the compa... | Continue reading
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned. Spend on the Internet has grown rapidly as you can now re... | Continue reading
Whenever you make a decision on what step to take next in your career[1], I think it is worth considering the following factors. Depending... | Continue reading
There are, broadly speaking, 2 types of ways to build value in a business. (a) An "equity" based business in which the stock value will gro... | Continue reading
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology. Sometimes this creates a very backwards looking view, as th... | Continue reading
The best investors often look for network effect businesses - where each incremental addition of a user to the network increases the value... | Continue reading
I have worked on multiple consumer products at Google (mobile maps, mobile gmail, etc.) and Twitter. One of the key things you learn when ... | Continue reading
In previous posts I wrote about visionary entrepreneurs , and how to constantly ask how you can 10X your business . However, many startups ... | Continue reading
One of the biggest shifts of the last 6 months is the degree to which pre-emptive funding rounds have become the new normal in Silicon Val... | Continue reading
One of the big myths in Silicon Valley is that co-founders should be equal. However, if you look at the most successful tech startups of t... | Continue reading
As a market driven investor, I am skeptical of 99% of the crypto projects under development today. That said, there are a core set of use c... | Continue reading
Over the years I have spent a lot of time brainstorming startup ideas with people who are (asymptotically) as nerdy as me. For some reasons... | Continue reading
As a market driven investor, I am skeptical of 99% of the crypto projects under development today. That said, there are a core set of use c... | Continue reading