At a recent accelerator demo day, someone asked me what I look for in a founder. It took a bit of soul searching to construct my answer. Here’s what I came up with. Mission driven: startups are such a rollercoaster ride that it takes someone who won’t get distracted by…

It’s been a little more than three years since I took my first tentative steps into the world of investing in early stage tech startups. I was a bit apprehensive. …

The news for grocery store chains has not been good recently. Amazon bought Whole Foods after its valuation declined by 50% over the last two years as sales declined Discount German grocery chains Aldi and Lidl are coming to the US Walmart reduced its threshold for free shipping from $50…

In early 2011, while I was working at Maxim, I signed up for a “Design Thinking Boot Camp” at Stanford’s d.school. I hoped it would help make my group more innovative. I forgot about it until a few months later; I was surprised to get an email with the d.school…

It was in the Fall of 2011 that I was rushing out of a stressful meeting to my company-sponsored health check-up. My blood pressure was too high, I was at least twenty pounds overweight and my cholesterol and triglycerides were off the chart. After the physical tests, I answered the…

A Timeline of Resources From every great era of civilization, a new technology has emerged that gave humans new capabilities. Each technology has been associated with a resource that was initially extremely valuable, while humans were learning to harness its power, but later turned into a commodity as the technology became commonplace. …