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Category: investing

True Failure

Tweet The other night, I was down at Techstars listening to the companies practice their pitches. Whats always most interesting to me is how the companies have shifted over the course of three months. Some have shifted a ton (one company completely restarted), and a few have made really minor adjustments. It always reminds me [...]

My Grandmother Once Told Me

Tweet For the past several days, I have been contemplating life. I do this often. It’s almost a ritual at this point. I stop. I review. I think about things I have done; I question why I did them, and evaluate them. I try to learn from things I have done and havent done. I [...]

Is AngelList Creating False Hope?

Tweet Yesterday, there was an explosion on twitter and some investor blogs about AngelList. It all started with Bryce Roberts of OATV writing a post about why he deleted his AngelList account, which was quickly followed by tweets and posts by folks like Shervin Pishevar (Angel), Mark Suster (Angel/VC), Jason Calacanis (Angel) and others (I hesitate to include Robert Scoble, [...]