Apr 11 3 min read Nervous Investors and Start-ups: The Year of Realignments Investors are nervous. They are nervous because they fear they overpaid for many private companies in the past few years, and it will be years before they see an exit. They are nervous because they don’t know how the interest rate rises […]
Feb 11, 2020 6 min read A Case for Snap to Reach Valuation of $80 b Snapchat has become a darling of teens and yet its parent Company Snap is facing skepticism from investors ahead of its planned IPO this week. The investors certainly have plenty of reasons to be ambivalent including the slowing user […]
Feb 11, 2020 1 min read How to Avoid 10 Critical Mistakes That Will Kill Your Start-up There are plenty of well thought-out advice books and blogs for entrepreneurs on what to do to succeed. Equally important, and in away a corollary to these advices, are critical mistakes that entrepreneurs need to avoid losing their […]
Feb 11, 2020 5 min read How to Save Twitter (and who should acquire it) Amid all the news about Twitter’s potential sale as well as its still struggling performance, it is wise to look at the value proposition that Twitter provides and see if this platform has a place in our lives, and if […]
Feb 11, 2020 4 min read Autonomous Cars Everywhere by 2025? Not so Fast! The excitement over self-driving cars has accelerated in the past few months, with increasing promises of very near (10 years or less) implementation of these systems. Lyft CEO John Zimmer, in his interesting and visionary piece promised the Third Transportation Revolution […]
Feb 11, 2020 6 min read Missing: Software Innovation Despite the flashy camera bundle and waterproof design, the new iPhone 7 is disappointing as it lacks any real innovation to make it a smarter and a more capable tool for daily tasks. I don’t necessarily expect the Tenth Anniversary iPhone 8 to be any different […]
Feb 11, 2020 2 min read The Top15 Most Promising YC W15 Companies Of the 114 companies that presented their three-minute pitch on Monday and Tuesday of this week, I initially “liked” about 36. Going further through the list, I eliminated most of them and ended up with 15 that I call “Most Promising”. The […]
Feb 11, 2020 3 min read What Apple learned from Japan and what it means for your Start-up n 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, which eventually became the most successful consumer electronic product of the next two decades, selling close to 400 million by 2010 (amazingly, Sony still produces the Walkman). What made the Walkman […]
Feb 11, 2020 3 min read Four Reasons Why Apple Watch is A Game Changer As we await the availability of Apple Watch in April, I predict that Apple Watch will be a huge success, possibly selling more than 30 million in 2015 alone (avg expectation is for around 10-30 million). I base this prediction […]
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Nov 21, 2022 2 min read The Reversal of Fortunes Benefits Start-Ups Almost 135,000 tech workers have been laid off from major tech companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. A little more than ago, our portfolio companies, like many other small start-ups, were struggling to get the talents they needed since the FANGs and aspiring […]