Writing

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

We are now approaching five months into the Covid pandemic in the US. The world is more like six or seven months in. And while we wait for vaccines and/or therapeutics to end it, we are left with social distancing, [...]  Read more

We are officially in the dog days of summer when vacations and the heat and humidity cause things to slow down. It used to be true that companies would put financing efforts on hold in late July and August and [...]  Read more

I’ve written before about how re-structuring identity is one of the most interesting opportunities on the web today. Today’s identity ecosystem is account-based (accounts with Google, Facebook, Apple, etc), which perpetuates data silos and prevents interoperability & innovation. As web3 [...]  Read more