- Nov 07, 2020
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the brilliant parts of our democracy is how resilient it is. We are each allowed to have our own beliefs and, as long as we follow the rule of law, we can express them however we'd like. This is a unique characteristic of the best democracies and one I value tremendously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not deeply involved in politics, but about 25% of the people I interact with in politics went to law school.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you sell a physical product, you have a lot of Q4 upside and unpredictability, but now you have to manage your cash to get to Q4 so that you can invest in building inventory to over-perform.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you aren't going to make your revenue plan, it's unlikely you'll make your EBITDA or Net Income plan. You don't even have to get complicated and look at Gross Margin or more derivative metrics - if you are off in Q1 and have any sort of growth expectations , you are going to miss for the year.
- Happy Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm usually an excruciatingly happy person.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kauffman Fellows is not necessarily for people just entering the venture industry but for experienced VCs looking to accelerate their growth. The program is centered around established innovation leaders - if you are looking to grow and become a better investor, you should think about doing this program.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.
- Motivation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
My weight fluctuates between 205 and 220, depending on how much I pay attention to it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been traveling more and feel like I've figured out a comfortable way to do it. The biggest shift is that I spend my traveling time 'in the moment,' I don't over-schedule when I'm somewhere and instead focus on longer time with less people. I also give myself plenty of me time on the road.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched my parents act as completely equal partners in their relationship, and as a son to a woman I respect immensely, I never thought of gender inequality as a child.
- Core Values
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my core values is diversity of everything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Louis is a good example of a vibrant city. Having stayed in a hotel in 2011 overlooking Cardinals stadium when they won the World Series, their fans definitely show up loud and proud.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has - it's a great model.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a long history with Kansas City.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2013, when Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city in the country to have Google Fiber, I bought a house in the first neighborhood that was being wired up with Google's gigabit Internet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love dreams.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020