Monday, in a mostly expected move, the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban prohibiting sports betting. The move opens the door for states to legalize sport …
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Earlier this week, Arteen Arabshahi at Fika Ventures released his Marketplace Calculator, which is a framework his firm uses to assess two/three sided businesses …
Read MoreThe last six years have been the most exciting, important and fundamental of my life. Over that period, I graduated from business school …
Read MoreHappy new year everyone! As many readers know, I’ve been actively writing about and investing in the cryptocurrency sector since early 2013. And 2017 was obviously a pretty extraordinary year …
Read MoreThe following article was initially published by TechCrunch on October 23, 2017 When Zulily went public in 2013, it sparked a resurgence of interest …
Read MoreOver the past ten years or so, I have been relatively early to three highly nascent, wild wild west style industries: online poker, daily fantasy sports …
Read MoreLast week, while speaking with a founding team building a new marketplace connecting buyers to suppliers, I mentioned offhand that it can actually be quite detrimental to actively advertise one’s …
Read MoreThe following article was originally published on Techcrunch on May 25, 2017.
Managed marketplaces (also known as end-to-end or full-stack marketplaces) have been one of the hottest categories of venture investment …
Read MoreThe past couple of months have brought several visible pieces on the opportunity and strengths of Midwestern startups, and underserved ecosystems in general. From Dear Midwest: Stop Trying to Compete with Silicon Valley to …
Read MoreYou’d be forgiven for missing a small cap retail IPO last week in the midst of the global Snapchat mania. Last Thursday, without much fanfare …
Read More2016 was a good but challenging year for me. It was a year in which I watched family members battle serious health issues …
Read MoreThe following was co-authored by Ezra Galston of Chicago Ventures(@ezramogee) and Samir Kaji (@samirkaji) of First Republic Bank.
Over the last several years …
Read MoreI am permitting myself one political/policy related post on this blog. I can't help it. I am a child of the beltway: my father served in the Clinton White House …
Read MoreVenture is a cyclical business. But in spite of dire bubble warnings, recent unicorn implosions, and a February 2016 nosedive in public SaaS valuations …
Read MoreEarlier this month Jonathan Libov, an Analyst at Union Square Ventures penned a widely circulated piece on the importance of paying attention …
Read MoreFred Wilson’s much debated post, Second and Third Tier Markets and Beyond, sparked an important discussion about operating and investing in businesses outside …
Read MoreAmazon’s recent entries into home services, food delivery, private label clothes & shoes, as well as a wide range of private label home items represent its most brazen efforts …
Read MoreIf you have the dubious distinction of spending as much time around consumer facing seed VCs as I do, you likely start or end every conversation …
Read More“In the strict formulation of the causal law – if we know the present, we can calculate the future – it not the conclusion that is wrong …
Read MoreMany of the first generation of large internet properties – often termed Web 1.0 (in my mind roughly 1998-2007) – were holding companies …
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