Registering an out of state leased vehicle in California when you move here.

This is just a quick post to hopefully help others who also find themselves in a similar situation as I did, and have to register a car they leased in another state in CA when they move here. I very…

Hardware is not ‘software wrapped in plastic’

This past weekend I was going through a Board deck for a hardware consumer device company which aims to provide an amazing experience & UI/UX to its customers. Company still remains in stealth, but something popped out at me as I went through all the…

How big is your market? Is it big enough?

One of my partners and I were discussing our need to invest time and money in companies building solutions for large market opportunities. He paraphrased someone important: “Are we sitting at the right poker table?”. How do we know a particular industry or…

Learning as a VC

It should be obvious that it is totally cool to accept there are things we don’t know enough about — if for no other reason than…

Tech/VC look back at 2018. Looking forward to 2019.

Best Practices for Startup Board Meetings

1) I attended a whole bunch of Board meetings this week on both coasts. Sharing some quick observations on what I typically see work well at Board meetings.

10 Things That Will Change Manufacturing Forever

The tension between factory workers, manufacturers and technology — building since the first robot began working the line at GM in 1961 — has reached a fever pitch.

Hardware is hard: some lessons

There is a lot of chatter once again in blogosphere and twitter that hardware is hard. Every time a prominent hardware startup fails, this discussion comes up. Whether it’s Quirky or Pebble, or the latest casualty: Lily Camera.

Remembering 2017. And Wishing Startups a Successful 2018.

This is not a “Predictions for 2018” list. In fact, given how crazy and idiosyncratic 2017 has been I am starting to believe more and more in Yogi Berra’s timeless observation: “‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about…