Jeff Clavier Last week, I got the chance to sit down and chat with Jeff Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC (some of their representative exits include Mint and Tapulous). Before diving in, I want to give a shoutout to Lionel Vital for being totally awesome and setting this meeting up! So Jeff [...]

Recently, I read a Techcrunch article by Michael Arrington about the risk profiles of entrepreneurs. Arrington makes a very interesting point contrasting the traditional human risk profile against the risk profile of an entrepreneur. Normally, people are considered risk averse and thus need to receive premium compensation for taking on risk. Entrepreneurs, says Arrington, are [...]

Breaking rules Entrepreneurs are, by definition, rule breakers. They have little respect for the status quo, the conventional, and what the general public considers ‘right’ – as a result, they have pushed the human race forward across the millennia: Aristotle, Da Vinci, Ford, Jobs… the torch being passed from one era to another. In the [...]

We’re not scared of ALL unkowns… Fortune telling is a funny thing. I mean for one, why are fortune tellers not billionaires. More importantly though, why are humans so terribly concerned with how the future is going to turn out? If there existed a real fortune teller, there’s very little doubt that he would indeed [...]

Today, a good friend of mine working in trading at Falcon Management sent me a brilliant article analyzing one of the most critical elements of trading: failure. And how incredibly wonderful failure is. The article highlighted some of the most fundamental philosophies of fear that affect everyone: traders riding the uncertain waves of the capital [...]

This week was kind of different from the others because on Thursday, we attended the GigaOm Structure conference instead of going to the True office for a speaker series. The conference was held in the Mission Bay Conference Center on the campus of UCSF, and the floors were packed with company booths, which were packed [...]

Well it looks like it’s going to be an incredible summer here in the SF bay area. I grew up here, in the suburbs of East Bay. It’s not until you leave the bay area that you realize how awesome this entire place is: the intellectual energy, chill-itude of the people, the weather (of course!). [...]