Weekend Video Fun From Big Omaha
This weekend you can catch up on Halt and Catch Fire, Mr. Robot, or the talk I gave at Big Omaha in May. I tell stories about my favorite investment (Harmonix),
How We Think About Values Versus Deeply Held Beliefs
Matt Blumberg, the CEO of Return Path, has an outstanding post up this morning titled The Difference Between Culture and Values. Go read it, I’ll be here when you get back. If
Why Isn't PGP Built Into Gmail?
An increasing number of companies that I work with are using PGP to encrypt certain email. While they are comfortable sending a lot of email unencrypted, there are periodic threads that
Sleeping With My Dad
I love to sleep. I’m at La Guardia heading to Aspen for the weekend. I got up at 4am to make my flight and I feel like the guy on
The Building Blocks for Location from Mapbox
This morning, Mapbox announced a $52.55 million Series B financing. We’ve been on a wonderful ride with them ever since we led their first financing – a $10 million round – in
Techstars and UP Global Join Forces to Support the Entrepreneurial Journey
Today Techstars announced that it has acquired UP Global, including the organization’s Startup Weekend, Startup Week, Startup Next, and Startup Digest programs. This is great news for entrepreneurs ev
Help Me Debug The New Startup Revolution Site
I just pushed out a major update to the Startup Revolution site. This is the URL that I use for all the books I’ve been involved in and all the
If You Get All Your Information On The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem From HBO, You’re Screwed
This is the best quote I’ve seen all week. It’s from Greg Sands post on TechCrunch titled The Real Silicon Valley. Greg is a long time friend and co-investor. I’m on
Why Does My Kitchen Look the Same as Don Draper’s?
When we were approached with an investment opportunity by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal in 2014, they started with a single, lighthearted but thought-provoking question: Why does your kitchen
Hertling's Equation
I’m a huge fan of William Hertling. His newest book, The Turing Exception, is dynamite. It’s the fourth book in the Singularity Series, so you really need to read them from the