One of my favorite quotations about innovation is attributed to Henry Ford: “If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would have said ‘Faster Horses’” It’s a great reminder to me how unpredictable the product creation process is, especially […]

I’ve often heard that there is a shortage of seed-stage investment capital in the Boston area, especially in the consumer realm.  Nabeel Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs put it pretty succinctly: “This is in IMHO *the* biggest impediment to a […]

VC’s pass on new investment opportunities more than 99% of the time.  My guess is that the clear #1 reason why we pass is because of the team.  This could mean a bunch of different things (eg. no confidence the […]

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Fall is upon us (although it feels like winter) and for Boston, that means a new wave of folks who are arriving here for studies or new career opportunities. When I moved to Boston from Silicon Valley in 2005, I […]