I love so much about this article by Roy Bahat (same guy as above, whose LinkedIn profile is stellar). Much of this mirrors the mindset we convey to Kellogg MBA students developing new ventures. “Startups, by definition, traffic in the […]
Rob May, editor of the Inside AI newsletter and prolific AI investor, kicked off the new year with “some thoughts on where AI is going and in particular where [he] think[s] the best opportunities lie.” He has one of the […]
Tom Tunguz analyzed the venture market to understand where in the cycle we are. “We are 12 years into the longest bull market in US history and this bullishness has powered the venture market. Investors deployed $117 billion in 2019 […]
AngelList analyzed seven years of deals to test assumptions about the nature of venture capital returns. One finding: “At the seed stage, investors would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal.” | learn more
I spent a couple hours this week getting a personal schooling on ransomware and cybersecurity from an IT expert (and subscriber 🙌). It’s worth paying attention to. “Ransomware is the biggest cybersecurity to date. With billions of dollars in losses […]
In this article, Alex Danco picks apart one of the reasons Silicon Valley is a unique environment for early stage fundraising. It’s not financial returns that drive angels to want to write early checks at silly valuations, it’s the social […]
ChicagoInno curated this list. The list includes Draftbit and Humanpredictions, two companies I’m a small investor in. | learn more
I tracked my glucose levels for twenty-eight days using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). Instead of traditional twice-a-day finger pricks, CGMs check glucose at regular intervals via a small probe embedded under the skin. I wore mine on the arm […]
Why are there no direct-to-consumer blockbuster films yet? “Long before the modern DTC era, movie studios did control the product from production to the theater house. This changed in 1948.” The Supreme Court decision that led studios to divest their […]
Patrick McKenzie, the author of How Discount Brokerages Make Money, has 100 insightful thoughts on financial services. “Geeks underestimate technical sophistication of the financial industry by a scandalous amount, largely because most of it happens below the waterline and not in […]