tech, startups, internet

SaaS valuations holding strong

“While SaaS valuations have gone down a bit from their all-time highs, they have held up well in this era of global pandemic. According to the BVP NASDAQ Emerging Cloud Index, the average public SaaS company is trading at 12.7x […]

oh, chicago

The chickens, ducks and goats of Chicago

Until recently, we had a farm a block from our house with goats and chickens and it was a big hit with the kids. “Chicago doesn’t have any regulations limiting the number of livestock someone can have in the city, […]

fun facts

What’s an Elephant Walk?

I stumbled across this term and hadn’t heard of it before. It’s a military maneuver that’s a strong symbolic show of force. The U.S. military just did one on Guam this week. | learn more

fun facts

Collecting corpses for a fee

In October 2019, Yale historian Frank Snowden published Epidemics in Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Click through for some interesting epidemic context based on the plague in Europe. | learn more

fun facts

Adverse vs averse

I had to look this up this week. I’ve been guilty of using them interchangeably. “Adverse and averse are both turn-offs, but adverse is something harmful, and averse is a strong feeling of dislike. Rainstorms can cause adverse conditions, and […]

big ideas

Planet plastic

“Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste — and 91 percent has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study published in the journal Science Advances.” | learn more