Early Stage Slumps Come and Go: We Will Always Be Here
The Twittersphere and blog landscape have been aflame at year’s end about a slowdown in seed investing. The amount of...
Lessons from the Entrepreneurial Trenches
I judged Viet Challenge, a startup competition of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American entrepreneurs, last weekend. The featured speaker was Tri Tran, who...
Cap or a Discount? Why it Matters
As moment-of-inception investors, we often participate in convertible notes or SAFEs. These allow early-stage investors to support companies at a...
Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Food
We see an impending tech-driven revolution in food, top to bottom. Agriculture and raw materials are being transformed as sensors,...
Where We Are Investing Now: AR/VR/XR
We think augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality (AR, VR, and XR) experiences that blend the digital and physical...
Where We Are Investing Now: Neuroscience
Humans, like computers, are both hardware and software. Human hardware consists of cells, bones, blood, all the physical stuff that...
Words to Entrepreneur By: Part 2
A while back, I did a post of quotations that inspired me as I built my career. It stimulated a lot of...
The 7 Heavenly Startup Virtues
My last post delved darkly into the Seven Deadly Startup Sins. Now, in the spirit of optimism and fair play,...
The 7 Deadly Startup Sins
As the holiday season approaches, with its associations toward the year past and the years ahead, my mind takes a...