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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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Letter to My Mother

August 1, 2013February 1, 2014 Jo Tango

There’s a major and happy milestone for our family happening this week.  It made me think of my mother, and how grateful I am to her.  Though she has passed away (more here), I still think about her influence on me. So, I a few weeks ago wrote this letter. ——————————————————– Dear Mom, I am

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Unstructured Sundays

July 21, 2013September 27, 2013 Jo Tango

Summer Sunday mornings are very different in our home.  It’s absolutely quiet for a long stretch as our children sleep in. Unfortunately for me, I cannot sleep in.  I’d love to, but I’m usually awake at 5 a.m. and often, earlier.  There’s not much to do at that hour. If the weather is good, I

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Photo from 1970

July 19, 2013February 1, 2014 Jo Tango

A bit ago, an old family friend sent me this photo. There I am, with my mother and my sister. I forwarded the photo to my father. He thinks the photo was taken just a few months after we had emigrated to Brooklyn from Indonesia. Since the photo was taken, a lot has happened. We

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Fly-Fishing As a Rite of Passage

June 15, 2013September 27, 2013 Jo Tango

Our children are out of school for summer. I’ve taken a few days off this past week to take two of them fly-fishing. Once a year, I drive five hours to a fishing lodge in northern NH, near Canada. It’s an area with little road traffic, no cell phone coverage, and spotty Wi-Fi (but enough

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My Greatest Personal Fear

May 17, 2013May 31, 2017 Jo Tango

At Sheryl Sandberg’s talk the other week, she asked the audience a question from her book: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” It’s a great question, and one about which I’ve been thinking since. Am I afraid? If so, of what am I afraid? Coincidentally, a friend of mine, Anne Cooke Mitchell, is

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Re-post: My Mother and Her Shoeboxes

May 12, 2013September 27, 2013 Jo Tango

(This is a re-post of a blog entry I wrote a year ago): This is a hard post to write. Today is May 12. It is the day of my mother’s birthday. She also died, at age 60, on May 12. That day also happened to be Mother’s Day. It was a difficult day with

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