Writing

As is my weekly routine, I went onto Kickstarter and backed a bunch of projects this morning. One of them was Ghost Pacer , a holographic running partner. Ghost Pacer was created by AbdurRahman Bhatti , an “All-state cross country [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Quizlet put out a “State of Remote Learning Report ” this week based on what they are seeing across their global learning platform during the pandemic. Quizlet wrote a blog post about it as well. There are [...]  Read more

I have been meaning to write a blog post about Marxism following an exchange in the comments to one of my posts about Trump’s dictatorial tendencies . Essentially the thrust of the comment was that Marxism is a bigger threat [...]  Read more

I just finished completing a thirty page form for an investment my wife and I are making in a limited partnership. This form is called a subscription agreement. I wrote about the frustration of having to complete this identical form [...]  Read more

I’ve written a bit about our portfolio company Nurx since we made the investment back in 2016. Nurx is a great example of how technology is helping to reshape how healthcare is delivered. With the Nurx mobile app, women (and [...]  Read more

Many founders want to do SAFE note financings for their early rounds to save time and money. My response to that is “let’s do a priced round, we can use a standard financing form we both like, we won’t use [...]  Read more

I’ve written about the need for smaller form factor smartphones and know a bunch of people who are frustrated by the lack of choice in small form factor smartphones. So I was interested to see this Kickstarter project to bring [...]  Read more

One of the questions I hear on crypto is “what can I do with it besides trade it?” And that’s a good question because truth be told, there have not been great use cases for crypto other than storing value, [...]  Read more

I got this question yesterday and answered via email and thought I’d share that discussion with all of you: I enjoyed your article on Board Diversity (https://avc.com/2020/06/board-diversity/  ) and am planning to implement it at my company. I was hoping [...]  Read more