In reading about macro market events during the pandemic, I learned that people writing down their thoughts – in journals or notes – benefited greatly. I have done this a few times over the past few years, and in some cases it makes sense to publish those thoughts here. To share what I have learned, …

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Our team is on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Caleb Gardner. Hes worked side by side with startups, global nonprofits, Fortune 100 clients, and even a past president, Barack Obama. In fact, for more than three years The post Caleb Gardner: Being @Barack...

When fundraising gets tougher for startups, the existing investors (insiders) will often provide a bridge loan to the company to extend the runway for getting another round done. There is more of this sort of thing happening in today's fundraising market and I thought I'd share some of the things I have learned about setting […]

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Im on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Abraham Paskowitz. Abrahams father, Dorianor DocPaskowitz, was a Stanford-educated doctor who lived and surfed in Israel, Hawaii (with Duke Kahanamoku), and California. Abraham was born in Hawaii and moved to The pos...

Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY's tech sector. They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. To that end, they launched a valuable resource last month called Innovation Indicators. Innovation Indicators is a dashboard that shows the […]

It is always nice to ring the bell when a great person joins our investment team this time we get to ring the bell twice. Venture capital firms simply do not need to hire a lot of people. While … Continue reading →

Those who know me know that I am a Steely Dan fanatic. Here's my rendition of Eliot Randall's amazing intro guitar solo to "Reeling in the Years." The post Music: Guitar Solo Series #3 appeared first on McInBlog.

I'd always been a ProTools user for my recording projects, but when I set up my new home studio a couple of years ago, I decided to switch to Apple's Logic Pro X. To teach myself to use Logic Pro and also Final Cut Pro for video editing, I decided to record a series of... Read more The post Music: Guitar Solo Series #1 appeared first on McInBlog....

Im Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. Im on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Ayelet Fishbach. She is an expert in motivation and decision-making. More precisely, Ayelet is a Behavioral Science and Marketing professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She The post Ayelet F...

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on abox)Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VCgrowth.The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels lik...

We have been watching our portfolio of ~130 technology companies wrestle with this decision for the last two and a half years. Brought on by the covid pandemic and the work from home moment that it created, there has been a sea change in the way that technology companies organize themselves to get work done. […]

Last weeks $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the healthcare industry. Interestingly, Amazon's market capitalization increased 1.4% or $18.3 billion on the day … Continue reading →

In this episode, the remarkable Pamela Hawley will share how to change the world through volunteering and social activism. She is a pioneer in modern ways to optimize global philanthropy. She is a winner of the Jefferson Award, the Nobel Prize in Community Service, and she was a finalist for Ernst and Youngs Entrepreneur The post Pamela Hawley: Ho...

Of all the business and technology writers out there, including bloggers, I think the best one, at this moment, is Matt Levine. He's the only person currently writing on Planet Earth that I find myself reading every word of everything he writes. For the last few months, he has been mostly writing about three topics: […] The post The Brillianc...

You may know that I love cars, and if you didnt, you do now. Todays guest is Doug DeMuro, who not only loves cars, but he has made this passion the foundation of his success and career. Doug received an economics degree from Emory University in Atlanta. After graduation, he spent three years working The post Doug DeMuro: The Inside Scoop on Cars a...

You know it is bad out there when the best performing financial asset in 2Q22 was the Russian ruble which appreciated 48.6% – the next closest investment was orange juice which was up 18.2%. Even the Kazakhstani tenge far outpaced … Continue reading →

I wrote the post at the bottom and linked here when Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter in late April. I am relieved that Musk has decided he does not want to own Twitter. I never thought he would be a good shepherd of the Twitter network and maybe now we have the […]

Esther Dyson is the executive founder of Wellville, a 10-year national nonprofit project aimed at achieving equitable well-being for people. She is a leading angel investor focused on health care, open government, digital technology, biotechnology, and outer space. During the personal computer days, when I was Apple in the 1980s, she was the most ...

Nationally there are 2,632 landfills and 72 incinerators which handle much of the 250 million tons of trash produced in the United States each year. It is estimated that each of us generate nearly 4.4 pounds of garbage every day. … Continue reading →

AVC has been around for nineteen years and it has evolved over the years from a place I'd post multiple times a day to once a day to now once a week. There was a time when there was a vibrant comment community at AVC with many posts getting over a hundred comments and replies. […]

In the last seven months, the venture / entrepreneurial world has gone from "the only thing that matters is massive growth" to "the world is going to end." For perspective, all you need to do is look at a dozen high-flying IPOs from 2020 or 2021 to see that the peak happened just before Thanksgiving. […] The post Navigating Choppy Waters appe...

Margaret OMara is the Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. She received her BA in English and History from Northwestern University and her MA and Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her academic career, she was a staff member to President Bill Clinton The post Margaret...

The Gotham Gal and I own five EVs and have been driving electric-powered cars since 2014. I don't drive gas-powered cars and haven't for a few years now. We have purchased two Chevy Bolts, two Tesla Model Ss, and one Rivian truck. I love the instant acceleration you get from an EV, I enjoy driving […]

My partner Ryan shared this with me. It's a 10-minute video showing the evolution from System 0.97 to macOS 13 Ventura. I had an original Macintosh 128K which is now enjoying its retirement at the Media Archaeology Lab. Enjoy! The post The Evolution of Apple macOS appeared first on Brad Feld.

Gloria Romero is a Professor Emeritus of psychology at California State University and was the first woman ever to hold the position of Majority Leader of the California State Senate. Gloria also served as chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee on Education, making her a powerful voice on education policy in California. The post...

The last six months have been a challenging time for tech and tech startups. Macro events have weighed on the sector, valuations have come crashing down, revenue growth has slowed (or stopped), and layoffs are happening across the sector. Many of the folks I work with are frustrated. The things that were working in their […]

Istanbul literally is both in Europe and Asia which underscores just how complicated the neighborhood around Turkey is. To its south is Syria and Iraq; to the east is Iran; to the north across the Black Sea is Russia and … Continue reading →

John Biewen is a journalist and documentarian. He directs the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University where he produces the two-time Peabody Award-nominated podcast, Scene on Radio. This podcast dares to ask the hard questions. It goes deep and covers topics such as: What is the origin of racism? The post John Biewen...

This is going to be huge, right? CB Insights says that the metaverse will be a $1 trillion market by 2030, just over a mere seven years from now. It is the buzzword of the day, right up there with … Continue reading →

Connie Loizos is one of the long-time tech industry writers who I respect. I don't respond to many interview requests these days, but I'll always talk to her. She has a good article todayin TechCrunch titledEmbrace the down round (it's going to be okay, maybe). I like the quote she pulled out of me in […] The post Down Rounds: Deal With Reali...

About a year ago, I decided to take a summer vacation from blogging. I didn't feel like blogging when summer ended, so I extended my blogging vacation indefinitely. I figured I'd wake up one day and feel like blogging again or not. That summer vacation (from blogging) lasted a year. Initially, I was working on […] The post Summer Is Here appe...

My interest in personalized health began at the park with my son, shortly after his first brain surgery to treat a condition called hydrocephalus. I remember the moment in full color. Im pushing my five-month-old son in the baby swing, his head in a beanie to hide the semi-circular scar left behind by brain surgery.…

Todays remarkable guest is Dr. Jennifer Kerns and our topic is the implications of the overturning of Roe versus Wade by the US Supreme Court. Suffice it to say that the sky is truly falling for womens reproductive rights. Jennifer is a practicing OB/GYN and an Associate Professor at the University of California San The post Jennifer Kerns appeare...

Gotham Gives is a public charity that the Gotham Gal and I started one year ago to complement the family foundation that we have been using to make philanthropic gifts for over two decades. A public charity allows us to raise capital from others in addition to our family's philanthropic gifts. We use this public […]

Zoe Chance is a behavioral scientist at the Yale School of Management and one of its most popular instructors. She worked her way up from telemarketing and door-to-door sales to managing Mattels Barbie brands $200 million business to Yale. Zoes research has been published in The New York Times, BBC, The Economist, and the The post Zoe Chance appea...

Background noise is a pain. Dogs barking. Babies crying. Leaf blowers war on leaves in the burbs. Cars in the city. You name it, and I have had it going in the background. This was all until I found a tool called Krisp that kills background noise. Yes, seriously. The truth is here that you …

Back in February of last year, I wrote a blog post with the same title and said this about the asset price bubble we were living in and investing in over the last few years: The big question is how does this end? I believe it ends when the Covid 19 pandemic is over and […]

Frederick Joseph is the founder and CEO of We Have Stories. This is a non-profit creative agency that supports projects to foster greater equality in the world. In this episode, youll see how little I know about current black culture, but at least I know what I dont know. And Im willing to learn. The post Frederick Joseph appeared first on Guy Kaw...

I blogged about the $1k Project For Ukraine a couple of months ago. Since then over 5,000 families in Ukraine have gotten a $1k gift, no strings attached, to help them survive during this crisis. That is $5mm of direct aid to families in Ukraine. Yesterday, Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Slack, tweeted that he […]

I wanted to start sharing some of my investing thesis, how I make investments, and more importantly WHY I make them. I shared the following on Twitter recently and wanted to include in my blog here. 1/ I wanted to start sharing the WHY behind investments I have made and how I built conviction. I …

Marshall Goldsmith is the most famous executive coach in the world. He has worked with some of the highest-profile leaders including the CEOs of Pfizer, Ford, Best Buy, and the World Bank. Marshall is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World, and he has The post Marshall Goldsmith appeared first on G...