This is Going To Be... Not on Substack

June 27, 2023

Why Most Startup Events Suck for Both Investors and Founders

June 05, 2023

The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

May 05, 2023

Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

May 02, 2023

Americans are Better Off Without TikTok But Banning It is Bad Policy

March 27, 2023

The Unbundling of Twitter

March 20, 2023

Grow Fast, Breakeven, or Die: How Moderate Cuts Will Kill Startups in 2023

February 27, 2023

NYC Public Schools' Move to Ban ChatGPT Exposes Adults' Failures to Teach Healthy and Responsible Technology Usage

January 09, 2023

How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

December 05, 2022

I'll Fund a Startup n00b But Here's How Not to Look Like One

November 14, 2022

Pro-Choice is a Fiduciary Responsibility

November 07, 2022

Want to Recruit Top Talent? Start Thinking of Work as a Product That You Sell.

October 18, 2022

An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

October 03, 2022

You're Not Taking Recruiting Seriously

August 01, 2022

The Pre-Board Board: How to Create Accountability Before You Give Away a Board Seat

July 25, 2022

The Philosophy that Underpins the Right: It's Not What You Think

June 27, 2022

Can Your Portfolio Company Cut Your Bad Cholesterol by More Than Half? It Can When It's Culina Health.

May 31, 2022

Every Founder that Hates "Personal Branding" Should Write a Book

May 26, 2022

The Legs of the Stool and Why It's Tough to Compare Two Startups Raising

May 24, 2022

The Stock Dive

May 09, 2022

Should You Take Money from Investors Who Don't Share Your Values?

May 04, 2022

The Founder and Investor Trust Problem

April 13, 2022

How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

April 11, 2022

What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

February 28, 2022

Do Web3 Companies Need Web3 VCs?

January 24, 2022

VCs with Ignorant Views on Race Have No Place in Venture Capital

January 03, 2022

Playing Startup Versus Building a Company

December 13, 2021

Tough hiring market? Make it easier to be a parent at your company.

November 29, 2021

Assembling a Tulip: Can you engineer thriving Web3 communities of humans (DAOs) using code?

November 22, 2021

Why Founders Have No Clue How They Raised (Or Failed To)

October 25, 2021

Why Becoming a Dad Makes Me Want to Invest in More Startups

October 11, 2021

How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

September 20, 2021

What will they take with them? How building a product is like raising a kid.

August 23, 2021

Forget the Politics. It's in the Private Sector's Best Interest to Mandate Vaccines on the Job and for Customers, too.

July 30, 2021

Getting Over Imposter Syndrome When Building Your Public Profile

June 30, 2021

Leading by Example: Why it's not important where Eric Adams lives

June 11, 2021

The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

May 10, 2021

Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

May 04, 2021

Scott Stringer and the Wrong Question

April 29, 2021

The Three Lanes of NYC Mayoral Election Traffic

April 11, 2021

Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities

April 04, 2021

Founder Ownership Math, Rainy Days, and Bigger Pies

March 28, 2021

Dismantling Hate

March 22, 2021

Smoke and Fire

March 15, 2021

Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

March 01, 2021

Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

February 21, 2021

Why Colleges and Universities Should be Scared of the On Deck Fellowship

January 31, 2021

$GME, Robinhood and r/WallStreetBets: What did we learn, Palmer?

January 29, 2021

Don't Hate the Raise. Hate the Game.

January 24, 2021

Contenting is Hard

January 18, 2021

Seed Investments in Insurrection

January 10, 2021

How to Get More Efficient with Time Management Using Time Blocking (Part 1)

January 03, 2021

How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

December 06, 2020

How to Talk About the Arc of Your Career

November 29, 2020

Five Tips for Giving a Professional or Technical Talk

November 22, 2020