Crisis? 3 Ways VCs Adapt
There is a global crisis going on as I write this article. It’s not the first, it won’t be the last. A lot has been written about how startups should manage themselves in a...
If Capitalism is a failure, then what is the alternative?
In the current political sphere along its rhetorical voyage, we all can meet face to face with buzzwords such as Capitalism, socialism, liberal, or social Democracy. Those words are often within the legit context....
Libra may be the end for Facebook – Part I
In 2019, Facebook crossed a red line. The company announced the Libra project. Before digging into Libra, let’s get a very brief history lesson on Facebook.
Back in the 2000’s, Mark Zuckerberg, a 23 year...
The Shift Towards Sustainable Pensions: How Plan Beneficiaries are Shaping the Future of Pension...
Many institutional investors are addressing global issues by making allocations into ‘sustainable investments’. Sustainable investing is an umbrella term referring to a spectrum of investment approaches such as ethical screening, ESG (Environmental, Social, and...
Three Simple Questions (And One Difficult One) To Ask Before Investing In A Blockchain
There has never been a better time to be learning about blockchain. Between the rate of growth amongst currencies like Bitcoin or Litecoin and the wide-reaching applications outside the financial sector, distributed ledger technologies...
Party Round? When Startups Should And Shouldn’t Take It
Party rounds, or mass syndication, is when a startup raises from multiple investors, none of which individually has a large enough stake, instead of having the traditional notion of a lead and follow investors....
Climbing the Liquidity Ladder
Big things are happening with private market liquidity. Just as the tokenization fad crashed and burned, a much bigger wave of PE secondary transactions took off on a hockey stick growth path.
The successful efforts...
ESG Investing Has a Data Problem — Here’s Why That Matters
Sustainable ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing requires, by its very definition, a robust and sensible approach. No investment that purports to improve the world can be made without a full appreciation of historical...
Thoughts on the Long Term Winner
Today we are going to discuss how the long term survivability of a prospective crypto asset is the single best indicator of its investment quality. We will also consider capital’s role in this model...
Can Any Formula Tell You How Much Money To Save?
We are led to believe that there is a way to properly prepare for any financial disaster. But in the current (rapidly changing) economic climate, is that still true?
Not too long ago I...
Quandl 2020 Alternative Data Conference
Alternative data conferences connect actors in the buy-side ecosystem to explore novel use cases as the demand for alternative data is increasingly intense. Only the largest and most sophisticated players with distinctly unique roles...
Observations on Token Derivatives – Part Two
In Part 2, we continue discussing how to use the MOVE Contract by understanding how does the buyer operate. Further, we discuss the practical results of the strategy and before we conclude, we discuss...
Could Modern Monetary Theory Save America?
I Become President For A Day To Apply Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) To The US Economy
Politicians and academics are making dramatic claims about MMT. I apply it to the 2018 US economy and learn...
Updated Patent system in China: the PAO
The very recent economic and trade agreements, as well as political ones, between American President Donald Trump and the Chinese Government, should facilitate a quiet and future cooperation, putting a pause and a truce...
The Best Way to Use Stock Market Correlations
When Alfred Winslow Jones pioneered the world's first "hedged" fund (the "d" was dropped later) he blew other investors away by borrowing funds to short 20% of the stocks trading at the time. He...
AI Startups + Fundraising = What Are The Metrics?
What do I need to show in order to raise my next round? All entrepreneurs face that question at some point and it may be the single piece of advice they most ask. This...
Psychology of Poverty
There seems to be a genuine belief that if you just work hard enough, dream big and go hard, you will escape poverty. If you’re poor, you just have the wrong mindset.
It is quite...
The Price of Poverty
There is a high price to pay for living the life of those who don’t have any resources to pay it.
Most people can imagine that being poor isn't ideal. But what a lot of people...
How Much Money Will Make You Happy?
According to two Nobel Prize winners, $75k should be enough.
Money and happiness. Two very different concepts that have gotten a lot of attention on the field of economics. So much so, that there is...
Startups And The Series A1 Trap
Hit the magical $1M ARR a year after your A but not so sure if you should be raising a B? And at the current burn your cash is going to last for 6...
