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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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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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Raising VC money: getting a strong start with your VC

May 11, 2012August 10, 2012 Jo Tango

This is the eighth and final post in a Friday series on “raising VC money.” I hope the series has been helpful to entrepreneurs. If you liked it, please consider Tweeting it or linking your blogs to it, so that other entrepreneurs can find out about it? Today, we’ll cover the topic “getting a strong

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Entrepreneurship is hard

May 8, 2012August 10, 2012 Jo Tango

Entrepreneurship is hard. We are in that part of the VC cycle when entrepreneurship is again “hot” and the popular media is glorifying start-ups. But, I don’t think it’s all that easy. Here’s how hard it can be. I today met with a young entrepreneur. He is from Estonia. He arrived in the U.S. a

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A fun dinner

May 8, 2012March 28, 2017 Jo Tango

Last night, I had a very enjoyable dinner with two old friends: Andy Palmer and Dave Girouard. Andy and I go way back.  He was the CEO I recruited to Vertica in 2005, back when he, Mike Stonebraker and I were working on “big data” before the Big Data label came along and it became

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Insightful and brutally honest report on VC

May 7, 2012March 20, 2014 Jo Tango

The Kauffman Foundation just recently published a report on its venture capital investments.  It’s pretty alarming. One of the items they write about is how large VC funds tend to be correlated with poor investment returns: Big VC funds fail to deliver big returns. We have no funds in our portfolio that raised more than $500

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Racism today

May 7, 2012April 19, 2017 Jo Tango

I’ve been thinking a lot about racism for two reasons. First, Mrs. T. and two of our children went down to Washington DC for spring break. At one point, they were walking around town, and an older person muttered loudly, “They train those little Orientals for war from a young age.” It’s an interesting comment because

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