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VC in three Unicorns. Angel investor. Harvard Business School Lecturer. Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ.

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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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Beta and What’s Next

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Jo Tango

In finance, there’s a fundamental concept called “beta.” It’s a measure of relative risk, specifically, how risky a security is vs. the rest of the market. A beta of 1.0 means that a security has the equivalent pricing volatility of the stock market as a whole. A beta greater than 1.0 means that it is

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Some Great Non-Fiction Books, Part 2

March 26, 2022March 26, 2022 Jo Tango

I’ve been continuing my reading binge with books from our town library. It has been fun going through some of the best 2020 and 2021 non-fiction books, per the NYT, Amazon, word of mouth, and general searches. Here are some others that I’ve really enjoyed: A Short History of Progress. One of my students recommended

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Some Great Non-Fiction Books

March 17, 2022March 17, 2022 Jo Tango

I’ve been moving away from screens and checking out books from our town library. I found lists online that mentioned the best non-fiction books in recent years, and I checked a bunch out. I found most to be riveting. BUSINESS Bad Blood. This is the tell-all book about Theranos and how it enticed a slew

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Angel Investment: Capchase

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 Jo Tango

We’re happy to announce that our family angel program (back 80+ entrepreneurs over eight years and donate all gains to charity; details here) has invested in Capchase. It is our 21st investment so far (portfolio here).   The company offers to SaaS companies a founder-friendly financing vehicle and has experienced incredible growth. One of my

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‘All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days’

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Jo Tango

The book reads like fiction, but it’s all true: Mildred Harnack, a U.S. citizen living in Nazi Germany, becomes the head of the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She eventually becomes a spy and hands intelligence to the U.S. The day before she is to escape to Sweden, she is unfortunately captured and then

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Ukraine and the Leningrad War Memorial

February 26, 2022February 28, 2022 Jo Tango

I was surprised and moved to see the video below from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when the Russian attack started: I had assumed that the country’s leaders would flee to Lviv in the country’s western region or leave altogether. Zelensky is a curious figure to me, a former standup comedian who used his popularity to

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Tying Small Flies
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
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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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