Prevailing Wisdom

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company” (Internet) 1996 – “It’s impossible to get...

Software Eating Industries

A little more than one year ago, Marc Andreessen wrote a seminal piece which has defined venture investing and entrepreneurship since. The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently...

Riding On The Wings Of Angels, VCs Avoid The So-Called Series A Crunch

This is a guest post from my partner, erik rannala thats originally published on Techcrunch. Much has been written about the Series A crunch that is facing entrepreneurs and their...

White Swans

A better edited version was posted by Michael Carney (thanks Michael!) @ pando daily. Go read that one instead! ************ In the past 30 days I’ve had sad and unfortunate...

Learning From Lean

I love the lean startup ethos and methodology. It is by far the best thing that has happened to the startup community since the onset of the internet-fuel renaissance in...

Video and Yahoo

Sometimes, the quickest way to lose credibility is to tell people who are a lot smarter, accomplished and experienced than you are what they should be doing instead with their...

Business Plans Are a Waste of Time

This is not an article I wrote – its an interview I gave and eventually published in Inc Magazine. BUT – since I had no idea I sounded so cogent...

New Rules for E-Commerce

(This post is published @ Forbes.com I am just excerpting the first couple paragraphs on the blog) It has taken a long time for the dust to settle from the...

Mobile, The Great Destroyer of Companies

Mobile is broken. Mobile commerce is broken. Mobile advertising is broken. Mobile lead gen is broken. Mobile app discovery is broken. Mobile app pricing is broken. Mobile subscription is broken....

Top Ten Sh*t Not to Say to a VC

I was planning to blame it on demo day, but in reality, I am simply having writer’s block. (Another possibility, I just ran out of interesting things to say –...

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