It's been over 5 years since Mark Andreesen published his famous WSJ article, "Why Software Is Eating The World," and in the years since, we've certainly seen the technology, venture and growth capital worlds evolve. While not every company or prediction mentioned proved successful, many did, and...

Lately, private market valuations (and dollars invested) are high - higher than they’ve been historically and higher than the public markets.  We’ve likely all shouted “holy shit” when we’ve seen the eye-popping recent valuations of companies like Uber and Slack, but in turn, we’ve all likely mu...

It's been far too long since my last post, which looks to be from December 2012, and I'm finally working on a new post.

A lot has happened since the 2013 New Year.  At the time, I was Director, Operations at Yext, but in March 2013 I joined Comcast Ventures as a Senior Associate.  In my 2+ years a...

A few weeks ago Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures wrote a great post on data driven planning and execution, called Plan Well, Execute The Plan.  In that post Roger outlines the benefits of "keeping one's head down" and the process of executing off of a well formulated, data-driven, plan.  His pos...

One of the biggest start-up lessons I've had to date is the power of dedicated teams, and a parallel-process approach to product development.  Some might refer to this as the "portfolio approach," but its really more of a component of that approach.  The important element is that you have distinct,...