What Comes Next

When evaluating new ventures, a lot of energy goes into thinking about the risks involved. I’ve been breaking things down into two major categories, and trying to consider those relatively independently.

The first, execution risk, has been well covered - I especially like this old post from Martin Tobias. In a nutshell, execution risk covers the […]

Here are the slides from my talk on the impact of the current generation of emerging technologies on the startup, given at the Emerging Technologies in the Enterprise conference in Philadelphia yesterday. The event wrapped up today; by all accounts it was the best value in web technology conferences in recent memory, and I look […]

If Rumpelstiltskin sold a product to enterprise customers, he would quickly learn a lesson that we learned at my last company: no matter how fantastically his product could spin straw into gold, his sales would also depend on his product’s ability to display and report on every aspect of the spinning process. It doesn’t […]