#Founders

1/8 Yesterday I tweeted about a story of founders who had given up too much equity too early which may impact their future funding. Today I want to talk about

1/9 I spoke to some founders yesterday building an amazing company with some good revenue and has raised some significant capital early on. The only problem is their early investors

One of the most elitist sayings in tech is:If you won't quit your job to work on your startup full time, then you can't be serious about it.130 million Americans

Founders worry too much about highly funded competitors. Usually funding matters less than the founders' ability. In the short term, a highly funded competitor can hurt you by e.g. lowering

People are sleeping on On Deck. On Deck will be the first multi-billion dollar community business. Their strategy is very clever. Here's why: 1) First they built community into the

Setting aside this one egregious investor case, hear me out. There’s a strange dynamic in the VC-founder relationship which never sat well with me.Most VCs treat their LPs as customers,

1/15 Talking about decks yesterday I figured it was worth putting down what I look for in a deck-Intro-Problem-Solution-Market Size-Business Model-Traction-Pipeline-3-5 Year Projections-Go-to-Market Strategy-Competition-Team-Ask-Closing#vc

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If you claim to be against CRT but then you employ logic like this: “Founders Ministries is a Neo-Confederate Network” you’re actually employing some the same logic CRT activists use.

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THREAD: Early stage investors: I talk to many African tech founders on the continent. One common pattern I found was some of the investors in these businesses need a lot

A lot of startups ask me for feedback on their startup idea. Most of the time I am not an expert in their field nor a potential user. I believe

Thread:A few thoughts on VC advice. VCs meet a lot of founders and see a lot of companies. Over time, we develop great mental frameworks for things that are likely

1/ Founder psychology is the greatest point of startup leverage during downturns. Leading my own VC-backed startups successfully through the 2000 & 2008 downturns, I noticed 8 mind shifts of

This might harm diversity. Forcing a VC to choose someone who *isn't a good bet* just to satisfy a diversity index isn't how the business works. It's not how any

One problem I have with this "it's either government by the people *or* enlightened experts" dichotomy, especially in the context in this speech, is that the founders *were* experts. Insanely

1/ This has been the busiest end of summer, start of fall I've had in 8 years of venture investing. The market is abuzz. A few takeaways: 2/ When founders

Checks and Balances

We’ve issued this statement in response to Attorney General Barr’s recent address before the Federalist Society:https://checks-and-balances.org/statement-from-co-founders-and-additional-members-of-checks-balances/