Triage Your Life

One of the hardest problems for every entrepreneur is that there is always too much to do. At any given time there are at least five different things you could do — write code, do customer outreach, work on your pitch deck, develop your PR and marketing strategy… The list is endless.

Limit Your Limiting Self-Believes

Today I sat down with an exceptional leadership coach to talk about how people show up when they present on stage.

You might know the moment: You are about to present in front of a group of people (be it a pitch, a startup contest or a…

How Much Is Your Startup Worth (The $1M Question)

One of the most vexing problems for anyone raising equity-based funding (typically Series Seed and onward) is the question of valuation. I get this question all the time from the founders I work with: “We are going to raise money from…

Hire Smart, Hire Right

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about hiring and how the best companies out there were built. A good chunk of what makes a company great (as opposed to anywhere on the spectrum of mediocre to good) are the people who work there. The highest performing companies regularly have the best…

Are You Doing What Is Important?

Two days ago we experienced the Summer solstice — the longest day of the year. Looking at an insanely beautiful sunset (and a super-rare strawberry moon) here in Silicon Valley and realizing that half of 2016 is already behind us, I was reminded of the deeply insightful…

Compete Asymmetrically

A classic problem and common thread in many of my conversations with founders is the perceived threat posed by large, well established incumbents.

Of course Google, Apple, Facebook and you-name-it have more resources, more talent, better access to the market and…