With the holiday season comes reflection: did I accomplish what I had hoped entering the year? Was I the kind of person I aspire to be for my family, my friends, my colleagues and my country? And is there anything I can do between now and year-end to help others…

Since I picked up my head in early February to announce our little family project, life has been a whirlwind. Figuring out my journey in the post-IA era has not been a straight line. In March I lost my father, my second parent to die in the past 18 months…

Those who know me well know that I’m a family man. Married to my college sweetheart. We together were very involved in our boys’ myriad activities — school, sports, extracurriculars, etc. It truly has been a family affair from earliest days. As our sons matured and developed…

Every so often, I’ll go on a bit of a spew about the markets, psychology, and how to have a prepared mind as someone who has been “in it” for more than three decades. Cool Hand Luke I am not, but someone who has a measure of perspective and calm…

IA Ventures has been on my mind almost nonstop since Q2 2009. What started as the germ of an idea blossomed into a full fledged plan for a firm later that year. It was in Q4 of that year that I met Jeff Green, the CEO and founder of The…

Raising money is hard for a bunch of reasons. You have to clearly articulate your vision for a business that may be non-obvious. You will invariably suck at this at the beginning, and need to do it many times to distill the just-right way of communicating your profound message succinctly…

Much has been written about how to start a venture firm, how to raise money from LPs, how to build one’s product and reputation and how to invest. Precious little has been written about how to return value to LPs and the venture firm/CEO dynamics associated with this process. This…

It has taken some time for me to get used to Major League Baseball circa 2020. I’ve seen dozens of games cancelled hours before the first pitch, loads of (utterly predictable) injuries decimate teams and empty stadiums with piped in sounds that seem almost dystopian relative to our previous non-pandemic…

Just minutes ago the MLB Players Association (PA)just voted down the owner’s last offer to resurrect the already tortured 2020 season. This will predictably lead to the MLB imposing a shortened schedule, some players opting out of playing at all, the PA filing a grievance against the league and the…