I’ve been using the days.am app for a few months now. (Full disclosure, I’m an investor in their parent company, Wander). It’s a beautiful, visual diary that allows you to capture life “unfiltered”.  You can read more about the thinking […]

Last night I attended a really fun event called the NEVY’s put on by the New England Venture Capital Association.  It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market […]

I was born in the Philippines and lived the first 17 years of my life in Manila and in Hong Kong. It occurred to me that this year marks the year that I have lived in the United States longer […]

I’ve been getting this question a lot recently. I think everyone who asks the question isn’t really expecting that unique of an answer, but find it helpful to ask anyway in hopes of gleaning something specific to me or the […]

I was lucky to attend a discussion last night on technology education in Arlington schools.  It was graciously organized by Larry Bohn from General Catalyst, who sent multiple kids through the Arlington school district.  There was a great group of […]

As it’s been reported, a number of companies are having a harder time raising money in the Series A crunch.  As a response, I’ll sometimes hear entrepreneurs say something like this: “I know that fundraising is going to be tough. […]

We did a little upgrade on our website recently (about time!). We are pretty frugal, and think it’s nice to flex our operating muscle every now and then, so we didn’t hire an outside firm. Instead, I got to play […]

As an uncreative VC, I figure I’d find a way to outsource idea generation for my blog.  So I was excited to partner with the good folks at Intelligent.ly on a regular series of posts where we would collect a […]

CB Insights published this report on the relatively performance of seed VC’s and non seed VC’s.  It’s pretty interesting. http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/seed-venture-capital-funds Some quick thoughts. 1. There is a danger in looking at averages.  Venture tends to be a game of asymmetric […]

Every now and then, I get a big reminder of just how helpful it is for entrepreneurs to have co-founders. Of course, having the wrong co-founders is really damaging. Also, there are many successful founders who have done great without […]