Thoughts from Mucker

Even before Sequoia Capital made $3.5 billion on a $60 million investment in WhatsApp, the seed- and early-stage funding landscape had already changed significantly. Most major VC firms have significantly...

What does Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Larry Page, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel have in common with me? We’ve all guest lectured at the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders...

As techies and nerds, we tend to believe in the utopians promise of technology enabling, at the very least, automation, and at the very best, intelligence. As consumers we have...

Market VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate...

Making fun of myself and the bullshit I spew on a daily basis . . . It’s almost been two years since I co-founded LA-based accelerator MuckerLab and since then,...

-The main competitor used to have the word “telegraph” in its name -The incumbents in the industry were funded in 1910, 1934, and 1976 -The industry is an oligopoly -Customer...

  We’ve all seen or even put together a presentation that included some version of the following slide:   (FYI, I found these slides on slideshare, I’m not commenting at...

Creating a liquid and vibrant marketplace is already hard enough; fine tuning a business model, and eventually getting paid for the value that has been created by the marketplace is...

Erik happened to be on vaca so they ended up having to interview the looser canon on the team. I hope I didn’t say anything stupid 🙂 More on Inside...

At some point in the life cycle of any successful company, it will have to abandon what made it successful in the first place. In the search for growth, the...