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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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We are the 1%

April 5, 2012August 10, 2012 Jo Tango

I met with an entrepreneur who has a cool idea.  At the end of our meeting, we started talking about his holiday plans.  He and his family are flying back to Israel for Passover.  He shared with me that his father is a Holocaust survivor. We then discussed the various trials our respective parents underwent

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Help: what to read?

March 12, 2012October 19, 2017 Jo Tango

David Cancel and I had an online exchange about what we read. I’d like to get others’ recommendations. What do you read that is helpful and inspirational? To get things going, here’s what I read regularly (and how I read them): Wall Street Journal (digital): Can be off the wall, such as this piece on

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Single and homeless mothers: true entrepreneurs

February 29, 2012January 9, 2018 Jo Tango

I recently was reading email in my parked car.  A car pulled up near me.  A young and pretty woman got out.  Pale and thin, she looked tense.  An older woman had driven her.  She looked very sad. They started unloading a few plastic bags of clothing and children’s toys.  It wasn’t much.  The young

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Forgiveness after the Holocaust?

February 27, 2012February 17, 2013 Jo Tango

I saw last weekend an interesting documentary called “Hiding and Seeking.” The film chronicles an Orthodox Jewish family’s journey back to the old country, but also, back in time. The narrator and his wife both have parents who survived the Holocaust.  They take their grown sons back to the small eastern European towns where family members

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My new blog

February 25, 2012May 26, 2018 Jo Tango

I am married and a father to four children.  We have our usual ups and downs. But there is incredible love and self-sacrifice in the home, mostly because of my wife’s generosity. I love my family. My other job is I help build ventures. I work as a VC with entrepreneurs on their tech start-ups,

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Man's Search for Meaning
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