Over the weekend I was invited to speak at the Thesis Festival, hosted by the team at Every. The event was filled with provocative ideas and I was grateful to be able to make a small contribution. I based my talk off an essay I collaborated with Evan Armstrong on…

“Raising a seed round would have been a huge mistake for us”. These words stopped me in my tracks. Here was a wildly successful founder at the helm of a business most can only dream to have built panning the path that most are marching. They continued. “If we’d have…

Over the last few months, we’ve been rolling out our new INTRO product. As part of those efforts, we launched a weekly newsletter called INTRO to Finance. The goal of INTRO to Finance is to break down complicated financial topics and financing questions into easily digestible and actionable answers. We’re…

Yesterday at the Sorenson Innovation Summit we had the opportunity to announce a collaboration with the Kauffman and Rockefeller Foundations designed to catalyze a new initiative within our current Scout Program pilot. But first, a little context. At the beginning of November, we announced plans for a Scout program as…

Nearly 5 years ago we set up a sort of sandbox to begin iterating on different models and messages for a new kind of risk capital. One that stood in stark contrast to the growth at all costs blitzscale based model which had become the dominant path for startup founders…

Over the weekend Eric Feng posted an insightful piece detailing leadings from Unboxed.tv’s explorations around unboxing videos and the commerce they drive. A major part of this exploration involved building products. A lot of products, including four different iOS apps, three websites, two content studios, and one YouTube channel…

In a startup world awash with a steady stream eye-popping funding announcements, one last week caused the collective startup community to sit up and take notice. The amount, by comparison was modest, the valuation was significant, but the larger narrative the round captured felt important or significant or maybe even…

I don’t generally share much about my faith publicly. But, I was asked to give a talk in our church last week and the response surprised me. Despite being an inexperienced, and self-admitted awful, public speaker it seemed to resonate with many in the audience who were in the depths…

From the day our v3 applications opened on Jan 1st to closing them on March 1st, we made a lot of noise. From posts to podcasts to tweets to a nationwide tour, we appeared to be everywhere. Then, crickets. Well, today we’re ready to make a little noise. Because today…