Your boss sends you a link to some software suite built by somebody he met at a conference and wants to know how it’d be useful for the business. You know right away the software suite doesn’t do anything remotely relevant to your business. In fact, the degree of irrelevance…

I’m spending several months in New York to make connections and learn about the startup scene here before making the move out to San Francisco to play in the big leagues. I was lucky to be here for the installation of the subway wait time signs on the A/C line…

For Alphawave, I need to decide what universe of supplements I care about. I also need to decide what health objectives I care about. We then need to decide how to connect the two. As with any project, we need to start with a reasonable dataset. Examine.com is my favorite…

As I’ve said many times before: competition is not just one dimension of business, competition is business. I’m keeping a close eye on my competition, secret-shopping, and learning everything I can. Last time, I secret-shopped PillPack, and this time, I’m scoping out Care/Of, a venture-backed supplement subscription service that raised…

There are two simultaneous waves coming together all at once, which are going to have a clear and apparent outcome: The repeal of Net Neutrality has given ISPs unprecedented control over internet traffic, threatening the very fabric of the open internet. The advent of blockchain research has opened up an…

Reflections on Principles, by Ray Dalio — Ray Dalio, the founder and former CEO of Bridgewater Capital, is perhaps the biggest of my all-time heroes. …

As I’ve said many times before: competition is not just one dimension of business, competition is business. I’m keeping a close eye on my competition, secret-shopping, and learning everything I can. PillPack is a serious player. …

As you know, I’ve been working what I’m calling the Million Dollar Idea Project, a side project I am doing in my spare time to turn $5,000 into $1,000,000 using only the tools I have available to me. …

I was having a conversation with an aspiring entrepreneur recently who came to me for advice on honing his pitch to raise money. His app had some decent traction developing, but he had a very narrow focus on what he considered to be his competitive set. I kept bringing up…