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Nov 14, 2016

I have lots of thoughts about the outcome of the US election but have been letting them ruminate to avoid contributing to the cacophony of hot takes. Here is a first bit that I feel strongly about as it ties [...] Read more

Nov 9, 2016

I am writing this from Web Summit in Lisbon where I have just spent the morning meeting with some terrific startups. One question that was on a lot of people’s minds was what the election of Trump as the US [...] Read more

Nov 9, 2016

Uncertainty Wednesday will return next, well, Wednesday. In the meantime there will be a lot of uncertainty. Read more

Nov 4, 2016

There is a lot of excitement among startups and other companies about building for Amazon’s and Google’s voice platforms. My reaction to this can be summed up as follows: Google and Amazon will have a perfect copy of every enduser [...] Read more

Nov 2, 2016

Today in Uncertainty Wednesday we are continuing to look at what limits exist on explanations. If you are just coming into this series now, you will definitely want to start all the way back with the framework which sets out [...] Read more

Oct 31, 2016

Tomorrow evening I will be giving a talk on the “Future of Code” at the NASDAQ Startup CTO Summit. The amount of code in the world has been growing exponentially for years. And that means that when you are in [...] Read more

Oct 28, 2016

At present there are three common exit options for venture backed and bootstrapped startups: trade sale (most common), IPO (increasingly rare) and sale to a PE firm (growing). We need innovation here both in the existing options and by creating [...] Read more

Oct 26, 2016

Now that I have, ahem, explained my take on explanations, Uncertainty Wednesday can move on to examine what limits them. Again, as a reminder, the whole point here is that limits to explanations and to observations are what results in [...] Read more

Oct 25, 2016

Today our portfolio company Clarifai has announced its $30 million Series B financing led by Menlo Ventures. It constitutes an important milestone in the history of the New York City startup ecosystem: generous early backing for an ambitious technology vision. [...] Read more