We are about to finish a two-week vacation on Cape Cod. One of my favorite things to do is to get up at dawn and go for a long bike ride. There’s something rejuvenating about biking in the coolness of a summer’s dawn, with only the sounds of awaking birds and the rhythmic whir of
Category: Personal
Band of Brothers & July 4th
One of my favorite books is Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. He writes about a company of paratroopers during World War II, following them from D-Day to the end of the war. They land on Utah Beach in complete chaos, push through Europe, almost freeze that winter, help liberate Dachau, and take Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
Sen. Olympia Snowe’s grit and perserverance
Here’s a very inspiring article from Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. It appears in today’s New York Times: When I was growing up, I would never have guessed that I could become a United States senator. Both of my parents — my father a Greek immigrant, my mother the child of immigrants — died before I
Death of a Yale grad (and how time is precious)
I just heard about Marina Keegan, who last week graduated from Yale College and a few days later was killed in a car crash. One of Kepha’s investors told me about it and forwarded her last column in the school paper, published the night before her graduation. I re-print it below (it’s from the Yale
In memoriam on Memorial Day
I hosted a lunch for an entrepreneur and his advisors downtown. During the walk back to the car, I walked by a sea of U.S. flags on the Boston Common. It was immense. The picture I took and show below doesn’t show the scope. A sign stated that volunteers put down 33,000 flags, one for
“How to Get a VC Job?”
I get this question a great deal. So, both to leverage my own time and to be helpful, I thought I’d write about how I got into the VC industry, and also, try to offer some lessons learned. First up, my job is my hobby and it is my passion. I’ve always loved VC, and