Earlier this week, UK based FarFetch filed to go public, with media experts expecting an ultimate public market valuation above $6B. You’d be forgiven if you actually didn’t know much about FarFetch …
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Monday, in a mostly expected move, the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban prohibiting sports betting. The move opens the door for states to legalize sport …
Read MoreEarlier this week, Arteen Arabshahi at Fika Ventures released his Marketplace Calculator, which is a framework his firm uses to assess two/three sided businesses …
Read MoreThe last six years have been the most exciting, important and fundamental of my life. Over that period, I graduated from business school …
Read MoreThe following article was initially published by TechCrunch on October 23, 2017 When Zulily went public in 2013, it sparked a resurgence of interest …
Read MoreOver the past ten years or so, I have been relatively early to three highly nascent, wild wild west style industries: online poker, daily fantasy sports …
Read MoreLast week, while speaking with a founding team building a new marketplace connecting buyers to suppliers, I mentioned offhand that it can actually be quite detrimental to actively advertise one’s …
Read MoreThe following article was originally published on Techcrunch on May 25, 2017.
Managed marketplaces (also known as end-to-end or full-stack marketplaces) have been one of the hottest categories of venture investment …
Read MoreThe past couple of months have brought several visible pieces on the opportunity and strengths of Midwestern startups, and underserved ecosystems in general. From Dear Midwest: Stop Trying to Compete with Silicon Valley to …
Read More2016 was a good but challenging year for me. It was a year in which I watched family members battle serious health issues …
Read MoreThe following was co-authored by Ezra Galston of Chicago Ventures(@ezramogee) and Samir Kaji (@samirkaji) of First Republic Bank.
Over the last several years …
Read MoreI am permitting myself one political/policy related post on this blog. I can't help it. I am a child of the beltway: my father served in the Clinton White House …
Read MoreIf you have the dubious distinction of spending as much time around consumer facing seed VCs as I do, you likely start or end every conversation …
Read More“In the strict formulation of the causal law – if we know the present, we can calculate the future – it not the conclusion that is wrong …
Read MoreThe debate amongst venture capitalists over whether to prioritize markets or people in investment decision making is as old as …
Read MoreThe following article was originally published on TechCrunch on December 30, 2015 One of the great promises of the internet …
Read MoreYesterday Hunter Walk published a post entitled: Seed Stage VCs Compete With Each Other But Not How You Imagine, which argued that in spite …
Read MoreHard to believe it’s been more than three years since I first entered the venture capital scene back in 2012. As I reflect back on some of my fundamental …
Read MoreMazel tov technology world. Yesterday (March 31st) you minted two new unicorns: Sprinklr & Tanium. The former's fundraise elicited …
Read MoreYesterday’s primary Twitterati discussion centered around Henry Blodget’s thought provoking piece DEAR SILICON VALLEY, Here’s Your Wakeup Call. In it, he bemoans …
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