Long-time readers know that I am a big Citibike fan. Citibike is the name of NYC's bike-share program. I have been blogging about it since it launched in the spring of 2013, eight years ago now. I wrote this at the time. Since it started getting warm in NYC about a month ago, I have […]

On my run to Boulder on Saturday, I listened to The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. My run was about four hours long, which was roughly the time it took to listen to this spectacular book. The quick summary from Wikipedia follows: Kaku explores the history of unification theories of Physics s...

I listened to Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times on Audible over the past week. It was spectacular. Danielle Morrill recommended it to me. We had an intense up and down journey together with Mattermark, which was doing great until we made a fundamentally bad decision around the company's strategic direction. The ride down, ...

Last night I watched the NY Knicks win their fourth straight game on the road in New Orleans. They are now 29-27 and have a fighting chance of being a .500 team this season with only 16 regular season games left. This is essentially the same team that went 21-45 last year. Elfrid Payton, RJ […]

Amy and I watched Bridge of Spies over the weekend. We enjoyed it, but particularly loved one interaction between the lawyer (James Donovan) and the accused Russian spy (Rudolf Abel). Donovan: You don't seem alarmed? Abel: Would it help? At multiple climactic moments, the line "Would it help?' got rolled out. It had the same kind of resonance with ...

It is a little known part of my career, but for a brief period from 1997 to 2001, I was part of a small group of investors who helped to create a startup ecosystem in Latin America. It all started with a company called StarMedia which created a Yahoo-like "portal" for Latin America. My partner […]

For years, one of my prized possessions has been my MTA EasyPayXpress Metrocard. It's a little worn down from a lot of use because it auto refills itself. It is a Metrocard that is connected to a "card on file" and it automatically refills itself so that it always has money on it and you […]

By almost any measure, 1Q21 was an extraordinary 90 days, from the political turmoil, progress on the pandemic, and to the devil-may-care financial markets. At the intersection of all of those forces sits the healthcare technology sector, which witnessed a … Continue reading →

Over the past year, weve seen an increase of people from across the business and political spectrum join the fight against climate change and pledge to support a greener, more sustainable future. Investors are seeking both financial returns and environmental impact and looking for opportunities to partner with ventures that are working to tackle ou...

Emily Segal is writing her next novel called Burn Alpha and she is crowdfunding it on her Mirror blog. I contributed 0.1 ETH to the effort yesterday evening and she is now approaching her 25 ETH goal. If you have an Ethereum wallet, like Coinbase Wallet or Metamask, you can participate in her crowdfunding project […]

My partner Chris Moody came up with a great idea he's calling #BoulderStrongTableMesa. This is in response to the mass murder that happened at the King Soopers in Table Mesa on Monday, March 22nd. What if the Boulder community doubled down on #BoulderStrong to show support for the small businesses located in theTable Mesa Shopping Centerdirectly im...

There was a day in the last week when four million americans got a Covid vaccine. That's more than one percent of all citizens of the US. One in every hundred people in the US got vaccinated on the same day. Think about that! Mayor de Blasio tweeted yesterday that 4.7 million doses of the […]

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Todays guest is Nikhil Kamath, the co-founder of Indias largest stock brokerage, Zerodha. For what its worth, hes in his early thirties and a billionaire based on his stake in the company. His made for movies story is that he dropped out of high school to The post Nikhil Kamath appeared first on Guy ...

I love physical photography prints. Whether they are silver gelatin prints or ink jet prints. Small and large, color and black & white. I love them all. I also love them in a book format and over the last few years I've likely acquired over 20 photo books. The one I go back to for […]

I sort of took a Q1 Vacation last week. 2021 didn't really feel like it started for me until January 21st. Yeah, I took a company public on January 4th, but then January 6th happened. It was a cold, dark, and anxious stretch where January felt like it had about 51 days in it. Then I was deep in SPACland and lots of deals and financings. I definitel...

Health Well my normal reading and learning cycle has been turned sideways over the last two weeks as I have had the chance to learn about Eisenhower Health, septic arthritis, staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin, rocephin, arthroscopy, PICC lines vs midlines, the travel nurse industry.  And I got to meet so...

I do a lot of "bulk emailing" but I hate sending bulk emails. I prefer to personalize emails and send them one by one so that the recipient understands that the email came from me. What that has meant is that I take google sheets full of email addresses and I cut and paste a […]

I wrote a blog post last fall asking for advice for headphones that don't go into my ear and allow me to hear ambient noise around me. I got a ton of responses and that led me to bone-conducting headphones. I have been using AfterShokz bone conducting headphones for the last six months and they […]

Most venture capital funds have a "recycling" provision that allows them to sell some percentage of their investments and reinvest those funds back into new investments instead of distributing that capital to their limited partners. There is no standard recycling percentage in the market, but I think 20-25% is fairly common. We do this at […]...

TEALS is a longstanding program supported by Microsoft where software engineers assist in computer science instruction in K12 schools. I have been blogging about and advocating TEALS for over eight years now. TEALS came to NYC in 2013 and has been helping kids learn computer science in NYC schools ever since. For many of those […]

Today's remarkable guest is Brandy Chastain. She represents the highest level of achievement in sports. Her accomplishments are truly remarkable. Brandi won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics for women's soccer and World Cup championships in 1991 and 1999. She was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the Bay Area The post Brandi Chast...

One of the gifts that I got was the ability to stay positive. I am grateful to my parents, my wife, and my genes (and anyone else responsible too). It is such a superpower. I don't just mean optimism. I mean saying nice things about people. I mean keeping a smile on your face. I […]

Habitat for Humanity estimates that 150 million people are homeless globally and that 1.6 billion lack adequate shelter. In the United States, the Annual Homeless Assessment Report in 2019 counted 553k homeless which was thought to be closer to 580k … Continue reading →

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture is weekend reading for anyone who wants to understand me and my generation. I was born in 1965 – right at the beginning of the transition from "Boomers" to "Xers." I'm glad my parents had me in 1965 instead of 1964, where I'd spend my life arguing (maybe with myself) that I'm not a boomer. A mill...

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Gosh I wanted to love this book, and there are some fascinating snippets in it about the amazing role of fungi in our world and lives. But a little too much telling me what I should learn, and not enough examples and stories, which are the memorable and instructive elements. […]

I have a Samsung Frame in my home office. I think I posted a photo of it here at AVC once before. But for those who did not see that post, here it is: I've had it for something like three years and I change the digital art on it from time to time. Digital […]

Dr. Sheila Nazarian is a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California currently transforming lives on Netflix's Skin Decision. She was born in America and then returned to Iran with her family. When the Iranian Revolution occurred, she was smuggled out in a vegetable truck through Pakistan. She attended Columbia University in New York The post Dr....

A friend and I dined last night at a restaurant that opened in our neighborhood last summer, in the middle of the pandemic. For the first six months of its existence, they could not welcome diners into the space that they had spent time and money creating. They carried on, figured out how to make […]

Ego Surfing You canpip install ludwig.No relation.sammcknoted: jesus it sucks in a lot of packages. Various and sundry cloud technologies Azure has a notion of digital twins as part of its IoT solution, there are similar ideas around the AWS IoT platform.  I have never found this abstraction to help me.  Ian Mercer has some...

I wrote about crypto and climate earlier this month and suggested that the narrative that crypto is bad for the climate is not as straightforward as many make it out to be. Over last weekend (a beautiful one in the northeast), two of my partners wrote on this topic. My partner Albert took a similar […]

David Cohen and I recently interviewed Malle Gavet, Techstars new CEO. It's a great way to get to know a little more about her in under 30 minutes. I met Malle about a week before I talked to her for the first time by reading her bookTrampled by Unicorns: Big Techs Empathy Problem and How to Fix It. I knew I'd like her before we talked, and after a...

I could not help but use the word Freemium in the headline to this post. For those that don't know, the word Freemium was invented here at AVC, back in 2006. I am quite proud of that fact, even though I did not come up with the word myself. With that business taken care of, […]

I no longer subscribe to many daily email newsletters, but I've kept a few. My favorite to wake up to is Ryan Holiday's The Daily Stoic. Today's headline was Its Possible to Tune These Things Out but it linked to an older post titled The True Power Behind Stoic Indifference. At morning coffee a while ago, Amy and I had a long conversation about the...