Passionate failure
Investors, mentors, entrepreneurs, and hiring managers have a habit of claiming divine abilities to judge other people’s emotions while admitting difficulty judging that same person’s actual skill and ability. Skills… Read more >
Letters to my kids – Shortcuts
Seventeenth in the series – Letters to my kids In life everyone says there are no shortcuts, I disagree. Since a young age I was great at finding easter eggs,… Read more >
4 Things Investors Secretly Look For in Your Cap Table
Originally posted on Startup Grind One of the most important things a CEO does is allocate capital using a Capitalization Table, or Cap Table, which gives investors valuable information about… Read more >
Parents don’t outsource their love
Actors don’t outsource their lines Musicians don’t outsource the creation of music Entrepreneurs don’t outsource the thing of value they bring to the world Recently I was on a panel… Read more >
September 2, 2016 Economics, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Investing 3 Read more >
Get lost before it’s too late
The easiest way to get lost is in a good book and I’ve been reading a few lately that you may be interested in…. In Fiction, I’ve read about 20… Read more >
The growing Norwegian startup community
I’ll be honest…Norway along with the other countries in Scandinavia weren’t at the top of my list for places to visit. The thought of cold and snow pretty much removed… Read more >
July 11, 2016 Entrepreneurship, Investing, Startups 0 Read more >
The top of the Northwest
Growing up in Seattle, I’ve spent my life traveling to British Columbia. You can see my two boys standing in two different countries ten years ago, recreating a photo of… Read more >
New rules, new liquidity for private company stock
You may have read my recent article on TechCrunch. I worked with a couple of great lawyers here in Seattle Joe Wallin and John Myer (highly recommend them both) on… Read more >