Startups

Remember when a prominent and arrogant venture capitalist called out startup employees to basically stop whining and work harder? He was almost immediately rebuked by one of the subjects of his anecdote as hypocritical, that VCs have everything to gain by squeezing even more productivity out of their startups’ workforces. Apparently we need to be...

When and how do you move off of someone else’s platform? I read a few articles recently that espoused the idea of small startups focusing on doing just one thing well, and not owning the entirety of the “stack.” By leveraging others’ systems and integrations, it only takes a few people to hone a...

I just listened to an excellent, thought-provoking conversation hosted by the a16z podcast on Venture Capital and unicorn private companies: Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles – and Where Unicorns Come from It’s worth listening to the entire thing, especially the first part as the guest explains how we got to our current climate of cheap money,...

There is a curious rebellion against higher education. I get the sense that it's an overreaction, a correction to the unquestioned emphasis placed onto college over the past few decades. The millennial generation is no longer seeing the gains enjoyed by previous generations[1], and education itself has moved away from teaching critical...