A Deficit of Leadership

In this essay we discuss leadership and a serious cultural issue: the failure…

8 Essential Skills of a VC

8 Essential Skills of Venture Capital Investors

SAFE vs. Convertible Promissory Note

The “Simple Agreement for Future Equity” (SAFE) has recently become popular for early stage…

Bring in the “Adults”?

This blog addresses a recurring topic for our CEOs — how to think about the value of experience at a technology…

Tech Bubble or Golden Age?

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full…

Metrics: The Writing on the Wall

Drew Oetting does a deep dive into the specific metrics startups…

Why Blend is Awesome

To celebrate its successful 2015, ~$40 million in new fundraising in the latest round, and the team’s momentum going into…

Who’s Your Replacement?

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men!” — attributed to Napoleon…

The present and future of trucking, our country’s broken, inefficient economic backbone

Pittsburgh: A New Tech Hub?

Pittsburgh, which was founded two centuries ago in 1816, was one of the great economic centers of the United States. It was the 8th biggest city by population in 1920, and it peaked at over 700,000 in the 1940s. A geographic center where the rail lines met between cities…