Writing

I noticed that the Kickstarter logo on my phone had confetti on this this morning. So I clicked on it and the app loaded this message on startup: I like that they ended that birthday message with “show me projects”. [...]  Read more

In evaluating leaders, at the top of a company, or in the ranks of company leadership, an important quality that I look for is followership. Specifically, will the team line up behind this person? Of course, leaders have to have [...]  Read more

In this podcast, Laura Shin and Zach Fallon, of Blakemore Fallon, talk about how to use the SEC’s Reg A regulations to do a token offering. Read more

Airbnb has been operating in NYC and NY State for about ten years now and yet we still don’t have comprehensive home sharing legislation on the books in NY State. The reason is that the enemies of Airbnb, mostly the [...]  Read more

My friend Eric sent us an article in the Globe and Mail yesterday about plans to build a 35 to 40 story tower in Vancouver out of wood. Here’s the link to that story but you can’t read it without [...]  Read more

When you look at industries that continue to operate on old, outdated, and highly regulated models (education, health care, banking, brokerage, etc, etc), it is interesting to look at the numbers of consumers who are opting out of the legacy [...]  Read more

As I wrote in yesterday’s post , there are good and bad things that come from new technology and new innovations. The challenge for many of us is that the promoters of the technology only want to talk about the [...]  Read more

I would like to start this post with a disclosure. USV portfolio company Clarifai has one of the best facial recognition models on the market and is very active in the facial recognition market. Now that I have disclosed that, [...]  Read more

As many of you know, I have spent a fair bit of my time over the last ten years on increasing the amount of CS Education in our K12 system in NYC and around the US. My friend Rob sent [...]  Read more