It is a glorious day here. The sun is out, the skies are blue, and there’s a gentle breeze. It is a perfect Mother’s Day. The photo up top of a neighborhood tree reminds me of what Mother’s Day should be: tremendous beauty, full of life and evocative of a brilliant spring day. The photo
Author: Jo Tango
A Parent’s Choice: ‘Learn to Fail’ or ‘Fail to Learn’?
One of the biggest challenges in parenting is this choice: do you let your children “learn to fail” or “fail to learn”? I’m thinking about all this because a friend sent me the handout at the bottom of this post. It’s worth reading. I’ve noticed that it is easy to overly protect children from pain and
Remembering My Mother
My mother was born on May 12. She died on May 12, which was Mother’s Day that year. Altogether too coincidental. I’ve blogged about that before and a memorable scene involving shoe boxes (more here). It was during that moment that I began to think about quitting my job to start a new VC firm.
Software Has Eaten Retail
In a different life, I worked extensively at Bain & Co. in the supply chain and retail industries. It put me on the radar of Amazon.com and various VC firms, as the e-commerce wave was arriving in the late 1990s. I’m thinking about those moments as I read a WSJ article on how Target has fired
Kepha’s Upcoming ‘Annual Meeting’
VCs are very lucky in many, many ways. Investors entrust us with piles of capital in multiple ten-year funds, which are essentially open check books. Portfolio companies count on us to help them source/land great recruits, find potential strategic partners, land early flagship customers, etc. As I’ve blogged before in a series of posts (more here), venture
Investing in The Cloud
I love The Cloud as a consumer, but I’m uncertain about investing in the cloud infrastructure layer as a VC investor. By the former, I love the fact that I can share team documents (Dropbox), back up my iPhone and iPad (iCloud), check email in a low friction way (Google Apps), keep to-do lists (Evernote), stream