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Thursday, June 7, 2018

Silicon Valley (and ProfessorVC) is Lazy

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I taught a class yesterday afternoon to a group of 25 Italian executives, managers, and entrepreneurs participating in the TVLP Institute o...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Talented Entrepreneurs

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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, t...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Portrait of an Artist

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In my professor role, many of my students look up to me (rightly or wrongly) as a teacher, mentor, advisor, confidante, and frien...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

So You Wanna be a VC?

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Opening Day Barron Park Elementary School (9/8/98) "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold. ...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

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I've written previously ( here and here ) about the issues with private companies merging in an acquihire or other downside scenario (i...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Do Angel Groups Belong in Heaven or Hell?

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"You analyze me, pretend to despise me,  You laugh when I stumble and fall.  There may come a day I will dance on your grave...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Please Don't Celebrate Failure!

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Silicon Valley and the venture capital industry were built on taking risks and making big bets on technology, teams, and markets.  It's ...
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The best way to describe my work is probably start-up CFO guy. I spend my days working with cool start-ups in a variety of capacities. I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I typically stay anywhere from 6 months to 3 years depending on a number of factors, not the least important being that I do not have the temperament or attention span for a full time gig. I also teach Entrepreneurship at San Jose State. On the personal side, I live in Palo Alto with my wife, two daughters (one who started blogging way before I did and the other who runs faster than I do), dog, and crested gecko. When not working or with family, you can often find me on the links at Half Moon Bay.
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