🎉🐢Don’t Even Think about Becoming a VC

at least not yet. I was at Duke interviewing students for a new Freestyle internship…

Has the opportunity for Indian startups been terribly wrongly estimated?

I was at a conference the other day, speaking on a panel with VCs and angels, when we were asked a question: With the softening of valuations and the famous Flipkart markdown, is there still a large…

The New Rules of Startup Fundraising

Lessons Learned on Hired’s Most Recent Trip Down Sand Hill Road

Vibrators, Marijuana, and Venture Capitalists

I talk about vibrators a lot because it’s my job. It’s an interesting ice…

Lessons Learned from Hayley Barna, Birchbox Co-Founder Turned Venture Capitalist

At Dorm Room Fund, student partners have the unique opportunity to learn from leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists through unscripted AMA sessions. A few weeks ago, we heard from…

What’s Next in Computing?

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes…

x.ai investing $23M in artificial intelligence for meeting scheduling

Q1 2016 ‘Dev-Native’ Funding Roundup

Despite looming fears about a slowdown in investment activity and a rationalization of prices, Q1 2016 was the highest first quarter on recent record for funding of dev-native(1) companies.