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VC and angel investor. Part-time Professor at HBS (the VC & PE class). Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ.

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Our Family Angel Funding Program

May 13, 2018February 5, 2021 Jo Tango

10/9/19 edit: VMware has acquired Carbon Black for $2.1 billion. So, we will increase the number of startups we will back. After Carbon Black went public, Mrs. T. and I had some discussions. What should we do with my personal winnings (I co-led the first institutional round when it was called Bit9; details here and

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Family Angel Program,Good causes,News,Technology and VC7 Comments

Book Review: Tom Eisenmann’s ‘Why Startups Fail’

April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 Jo Tango

Tom Eisenmann’s Why Startups Fail is a gem of a book. As I’ve blogged before (here), the success rate in venture capital is only about 33%: a super-majority of investments made by people who supposedly know what they’re doing comprises of flops. Some mainstream-media articles extol and chronicle successes that, truthfully, are few in number;

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‘Shtisel’

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 Jo Tango

I watched Shtisel on Netflix and was absolutely impressed. I read about the series in The New Yorker (here), was intrigued, and watched all three seasons. A series in Hebrew and Yiddish about a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) family in Jerusalem? A character-rich TV series that relies on great acting and dialogue instead of special effects, violence,

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Tips and Tricks: Booking a Vaccine Appointment

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 Jo Tango

It’s great news that the vaccines are being rolled out to broader groups of the population. I did some research and booked appointments for me and Mrs. T. There is a learning curve to the process. Here’s what I did in case it is helpful to you. The advice applies to Massachusetts but I suspect

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A Greater Whole

March 28, 2021April 9, 2021 Jo Tango

On Saturday, I had some good luck finding fish, including a really stunning 17″ buttery brown and a 16″ feisty male. At lunch time, I went back to the car and heard a car stop behind me. “Did you catch many fish?” I heard a kind voice and turned around. It was an older lady,

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Fly fishing,Personal,Philosophy1 Comment

Truth Be Told

March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 Jo Tango

For fly anglers, March is a time for when our eyes are bigger than our stomachs. The sun is starting to get higher on the horizon, the snow pack has largely melted, and bugs are ever so slightly starting to get more active. After a long winter with iced fly rods, savage winds, and standing

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Friendships on the Water

February 14, 2021February 16, 2021 Jo Tango

Some years ago, for grins and chuckles, I started to write for a fly-fishing blog (here). I did so to document my learnings, failures, and outings for myself. Plus I love writing. Gradually, other anglers offered to write for the blog as well, and we became a crew. We are passionate fly fishers who want

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Brain hacking,Fly fishing,HBS2 Comments
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Tying Small Flies
Fishing Small Flies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Writing My Wrongs
Simple Path
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Dynamic Nymphing: Tactics, Techniques, and Flies from Around the World
The Sun Also Rises
A Moveable Feast
The Great Gatsby
The Little Prince
Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
The Laughing Sutra
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Man's Search for Meaning
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End


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