I try to reflect more at year-end, and so, I thought I’d write here about our first year investing from Kepha’s Fund 2. We’re very grateful to our LPs for supporting us with another fund. We cut over to Fund 2 spring of 2012 and we’ve since made six seed investments. We plan on continuing that
Money and Arrogance
Business Insider recently published a story called “Silicon Valley Is Living Inside a Bubble of Tone-Deaf Arrogance.” It highlighted a number of incidents in the Bay area regarding wealth and the ensuing self-confidence it can create. I don’t know the people in the article, and I don’t want to judge them. But, I can write that
Capitalism and Social Justice
In the past week, the theme of capitalism vs. social justice has cropped up over and over. First, I read an amazing set of articles from the NY Times that chroniced the life of a homeless child. Then, I perused Pope Francis’ recent letter, wherein he criticizes unfettered capitalism. And today, Fred Wilson and Bijan
An Email Exchange at 11 p.m.
I was surprised last night at 11 pm to get an email from one of my CEOs. His flight was cancelled due to bad weather and he was going to have to bush-whack his way home on a train. He was also feeling pretty run down, he admitted. So, we emailed back and forth and
The Most Important Question You Can Ask
Moritz Plassnig this morning sent me a great article through a Tweet. It’s called “The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself Today”. It is well worth reading. Author Mark Manson writes: What’s more interesting to me is what pain do you want? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater
Quit a Job and Pursue Your Dream?
There’s a cool article in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about a VC who leaves work to pursue his dream of competing in the Olympics. I think the best paragraph in the article was this one: His…epiphany came after his usual speech to entrepreneurs about following one’s dreams. Lying in his hotel bed, he thought, “I