Follow-up On “Sell Your Startup in Public” ...
Got a lot of reactions to my last post well-nigh acquihires (specifically, lack of them) and how that might transpiration the tideway startups take to pursuing ‘soft landings.’ Wanted to...
Killing The ‘Must Have a Warm Intro To a VC’ Myth Will Be Good For ...
Why I’m Participating in SeedChecks’ “Submit Your Deck” CommunityWe’ve never believed in hiding. Our email addresses are on our website, and there’s no junior staffer or AI Bot replying on...
AI Enthusiasm is Not a Bubble and Even if it was We Wouldn’t Necessarily Know ...
It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth Increasingly In Aggregate Than is Currently Stuff Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed)In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ That...
Changing The Face(s) of Venture Capital, Screendoor Hires Lisa Cawley, Our First Managing Director, to ...
An Economic Vehicle With a Societal Mandate, Screendoor Backs Emerging Managers from Underrepresented GroupsMy hope for Screendoor is clear, if not simple: we’re going to be the largest, and most...
You Probably Can’t Hire Stripe’s First COO But Soon You’ll Be Able To Read Her ...
Claire Hughes Johnson Joined Stripe in 2014 After a Decade at Google. Her Management Tips Are Legendary. Now They’re Published.Imposter syndrome manifests itself in variegated ways. In my early career,...
The Economics of War and Vintage Concert T-Shirts. ...
Ukrainians Can Destroy a Russian Tank For Well-nigh The Price of a Nirvana Artifact.One thing is for sure, I never should have tossed those hair metal concert relics and other...
“Dead on arrival. I’m still waiting to see the first good Mastodon post. God help ...
Casey Newton’s Deep Skepticism Of Twitter Replacements & Getting Increasingly Comfortable With Substack’s 10% Take RateMy daughter knows Casey Newton as the ‘watch pro wrestling and eat yellow wings’ friend....
Don’t Believe The Terminator Movies, Artificial Intelligence’s First Strike Against Humanity Is By Flattery, Not Force. ...
You’re Not As Attractive As Lensa’s Magic Avatars Suggests. And Why That’s a Problem.Digital Plastic Surgery. Or maybe AR Beer Goggles. That’s what everyone’s Lensa Magic Avatars look like to...
“Being a 2nd time founder is basically figuring out how to leverage all your hype ...
Joe Fernandez (Klout, Joymode, NewCo) On What Changes After Your First CompanyI’m currently obsessing on repeat founders, and what lessons they want to share with the startup community. Just like...
“You have to fight the urge to do everything the same way you did it ...
Our industry talks well-nigh ‘repeat founders’ with a lot of reverence and for good reason given the transferral required to build a startup. We moreover sometimes think of it as...