My car has a fancy navigation system, complete with traffic updates. The free iPhone app, Waze, trounces it. Waze is always ahead of my car’s nav system, with better data. The app tracks everyone in real-time, and so, you can’t really beat that. My car’s nav system has about a 30 minute lag in data
Author: Jo Tango
Football, Tom Brady and Motivation
I love watching football. It is a major vice in my life. It consumes hours, both from watching it and reading about it. One thing I really like is the human effort required to play in the NFL. For example, there’s a great video series about Tom Brady called “The Brady 6”. ESPN’s Mike Reiss
Lifelong Learning
Brad Feld Tweeted this morning about a blog post his father wrote (more here). I found it inspiring. Some members of the Feld family get together every year. He writes: Our private Chitaugua took place August 23rd-26th. Each of the 6 of us had 2-3 hours to talk about anything we wanted. During that time there
Post Script: The Broke Entrepreneur from Europe
It’s not often that I empty my wallet to help someone out. I’ve written in the past about such a time, when an entrepreneur from Estonia was nearly broke (read “Entrepreneurship Is Hard”). He was sleeping on people’s couches. Well, I reached out to him to get an update. Unfortunately, he did have to move
Venture Capital As a Team Sport
As I’ve written many times, Kepha is an equal partnership for its investing partners. Eric and I are equal in terms of economics and voting (read “How VCs Are Paid” for how firms allocate compensation). We do this because we think VC is best played as a team sport. As equal partners, we have an
Seed “Party Rounds” Not Much Fun
For a bit of time, seed financing rounds involving many investors were the rage. Here’s a recent TechCrunch article that highlights the downside of the “party round” approach (click here). Here is an excerpt: Counter-intuitively, Party Rounds are not much fun for founders. In fact, this type of structural round can be extremely detrimental….The risk