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Investing Outside Of Silicon Valley: Now More Than Ever (Where “Ever” = 2013)
Homebrew is making more investments outside of Silicon Valley than we have in our history! That statement might be more dramatic if our firm was founded in 1983 instead of 2013, but speaks to a han…
“The folks who have the most outsized successes are the least likely people to have been doing it for the money” – Jason Shellen Reflecting On His Time At Google, Startups
Jason Shellen and I overlapped at Google but for some reason, our best conversations always happened outside of the Plex – like on a bus heading to Google’s pre-TED dinner in Monterey, …
“You need to be extremely good at picking up on subtleties and subtext in communication and this is not something men are famous for” – Taylor Lorenz on covering Internet Culture
I love anthropology even more than I love algorithms. Watching people use my products like Second Life and YouTube was always fascinating because unexpected things happened every day – emerge…
Why This Latest Facebook Feature Is Likely About Civility, Not Virality
It’s hostage-movie gospel that you must get kidnappers to use your name, look at pictures of your family, learn about your life, anything that humanizes you and makes it more difficult for th…
Me! On the Digiday Podcast (Transcript & Link)
Brian Morrissey is EIC of Digiday and we met online. That’s less of a confession and more an admission that I was surprised to be invited on to his podcast, given that they usually focus on t…
Origins of a blog (+ what’s wrong with TiVo)
An informal poll of TiVo & ex-TiVo employees reveals that there’s no standard for transcribing the noise the device makes when moving from normal speed to 1x, 2x or 3x fast-forward. A tri…
The Best VC on Instagram
The world doesn’t need your content, but if you enjoy creating, you should do it, without hesitation. That would be my advice to you as a human. But whenever a fellow investor tells me they n…
Spend Time with A+ People in Other Industries
Advice for folks in tech who are at the beginning or middle of building their careers: Focus on weak ties. Once you’ve got let’s say ~100 diverse relationships within the tech community…
Old Man Yells At Clouds (and Aspiring VCs As To What This Industry Really Is About)
I get a lot of inbound from friends, acquaintances and Twitter followers about making the transition from Operator to VC. Here are the top three reasons – lightly paraphrased – for why …
Boobs, Muscles & Fairy Wings: Everything I Know About How Humans Design Their Avatar Selves
It was a combination of early career anxiety and actual startup struggles which combined to make my years working on Second Life personally stressful. I remember my parents visiting our office and …
Communities Can Grow Too Quickly
I was recently granted access to a Slack community associated with a newsletter I’ve been reading for a while. The kinetic energy of new members started on the #Welcome channel and then flowe…
Communities Can Grow Too Quickly
I was recently granted access to a Slack community associated with a newsletter I’ve been reading for a while. The kinetic energy of new members started on the #Welcome channel and then flowe…
The One Problem Most Publishing Platforms Forget To Solve
Do you get excited reading about email newsletter platforms? I do. And there were two notes in this week’s article about Substack which made me clap my hands. First, they’ve hire…
How YouTube Ended Up On The First iPhone: A Tweet Thread
I periodically delete my tweets so wanted to preserve this story from yesterday since people seemed to appreciate the historical context as the iPhone turns 10. I worked at Google from 2003-2013 an…
What Do You Want From Me Besides Capital?
I live for that moment of flicker in an entrepreneur’s eye during a pitch discussion. The one which suggests I’ve asked a question which is simultaneously both new to their fundraising …