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VC in three exited Unicorns. Angel investor. Harvard Business School Lecturer. Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ.

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Doing the right thing

May 18, 2012October 30, 2024 Jo Tango

I had a usual week with a lot of meetings.  One was with two young entrepreneurs. They raised some angel money, and while they’ve made good progress, they think the likely path is to sell the company to a strategic because progress has been slower than planned. As I’ve written before here, entrepreneurship is hard.

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“Only in America”

May 17, 2012March 4, 2017 Jo Tango

I was invited to say a few words at an event last night called the “Unity Dinner.”  State Treasurer Steven Grossman kicked off the night with a passionate perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship. The key note speaker was Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, and other speakers from the tech side included Joe Chung of

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How VC “optics” can drive behavior

May 15, 2012August 14, 2024 Jo Tango

I know this sounds strange, but investment firms can have an incentive not to support their companies in future rounds, particularly if there are deep-pocketed co-investors who can do so.  It may be part of that firm’s strategy, but also, it can make for some great optics. For example, one of our companies raised a Series

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My Mother and Her Shoe Boxes

May 12, 2012May 13, 2017 Jo Tango

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 too many coincidences. Soon after she passed away, I was at the funeral

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What is “VC 2.0”?

May 11, 2012May 30, 2018 Jo Tango

Kirill Sofronov contacted me after reading my blog post on the recent Kauffman study of VC, in which I reference “VC 2.0.” He asked me to write more about what VC 2.0 is. I think that is a tall order. I will give it a shot, though, using two perspectives as a starting point. First,

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A Roundtable discussion with the Business Czar

May 11, 2012February 28, 2022 Jo Tango

Yesterday, I participated in a roundtable discussion on Big Data, led by Greg Bialiecki. He is on the Governor’s team.  Wade Roush calls him the “Business Czar” in an article here. I’ve been investing in Big Data, before there was such a label, since 2003: StreamBase, Vertica (sold to HP), Goby (sold to Telenav), VoltDB and Paradigm4.

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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Tying Small Flies
Fishing Small Flies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Writing My Wrongs
Simple Path
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Dynamic Nymphing: Tactics, Techniques, and Flies from Around the World
The Sun Also Rises
A Moveable Feast
The Great Gatsby
The Little Prince
Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
The Laughing Sutra
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Man's Search for Meaning
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End


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