| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.10.2023 | State of Venture in Fall 2023 | Earlier this week, I held the annual meeting for K9 Ventures. As I mentioned in the meeting, I am grateful to the K9 Founders for allowing me to be along for the ride in the companies, and I am also thankful to the K9 LPs for allowing me to... |
| 16.04.2023 | Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates | It has been a while since I posted to the K9 Ventures blog. I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. Along the way, I’ve learned and am learning... |
| 22.12.2021 | Hit Start Media – Enabling Enterprise Companies to Own Their Narrative | Hit Start Media is my latest investment for K9. Historically, I have avoided content companies. In fact, if you look at my investment criteria you’ll notice that media is filtered out. But Hit Start isn’t just a media company; it’s an enter... |
| 23.02.2021 | The First Close Podcast w/Manu Kumar | I had the pleasure of chatting with Jessica Straus (@jstraus) at Carta, under the creative eyes and ears of Theo Miller (@theocmiller) of Hit Start Media, for an episode of The First Close podcast. We chatted about building K9 Ventures, co-... |
| 15.10.2020 | I Believe | Today was K9 Ventures’ annual meeting. Each year that I do this, I’m amazed at what K9 founders and K9 portfolio companies have accomplished and I’m grateful to the K9 LPs for the ability to do what I do at K9.
We’re NOT in normal times. A... |
| 14.04.2020 | The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli | Pragli is a virtual office for remote teams that facilitates faster communication and increased closeness between teammates.
Here is a quick video:
It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital (@jrichlive) on Twitter:
I... |
| 08.02.2020 | Startups are never straight lines | This is a recent tweet-storm that I wanted to cross post here as well as I feel so strongly about the lessons.
1/ So much of building a product/company is about progressive discovery. You build something, you figure out something else, the... |
| 07.01.2020 | Introducing Avoma: Meeting Intelligence | I’m pleased to announce and support the launch of Avoma, a K9 Ventures’ portfolio company that is making all of us who spend time in meetings more productive by utilizing AI. One of the big changes that has happened in business today is tha... |
| 28.05.2019 | Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots | A little known fact about me is that my paternal grandmother was a farmer. When we would visit her I remember running along the paths surrounded by fields of rice, wheat, grape vines, and apricots. Barring one lonesome mechanical tractor, p... |
| 20.04.2019 | What is the biggest enemy of a startup? | In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones, came by to visit us at the office. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to. In fact, I can hear the intonatio... |
| 17.04.2019 | 10 Years for K9 Ventures | My typical Wednesday schedule is pretty grueling (by choice, to try and free up other days of the week) as I do between 9–10 back to back 45 minute meetings with K9 portfolio companies. I have a 45 minute break for lunch. As I sit here eati... |
| 02.11.2018 | AI Power: Introducing Currant | The home is getting smarter. We hear that every day and we’re constantly exposed to new devices that all help to bring this home of the future to us. From smart doorbells, to smart door locks, to smart light bulbs and more. But one thing in... |
| 26.09.2018 | The future is keyless: Introducing Nexkey |
Ah, the morning pat down: wallet, check; phone, check; keys, check. That’s been my routine for decades. That’s probably been your routine for decades as well. And yes, we’re carrying a super computer in our pockets, but so much of our dai... |
| 20.09.2018 | Investors should pay their own legal expenses | Legal by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
There, I said it; right there in the title of the blog post. And I’ll repeat it again: Investors should pay their own legal expenses.
I’ve never understood why the norm for someone pu... |
| 08.09.2018 | What you didn’t know about TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Forethought AI |
Yesterday, K9 Ventures portfolio company, Forethought AI, was declared the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 Startup Battlefield competition.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: (L-R) TechCrunch Editor in Chief Matthew ... |
| 18.08.2018 | Hi. Hello. And Bye Bye Business Cards! | I last ordered business cards in 2009. I think I ordered a thousand of them. And I haven’t run out of them yet — because most times when I need them, I don’t have them on me. They’re either at the office, or in my car, or in my backpack; bu... |
| 07.08.2018 | Browsers were meant for browsing, but with Workona they’re now designed for working | I’m excited to announce K9 Ventures’ recent investment in Workona. K9 led the initial financing for Workona in December 2017. What is Workona? Well, this video does a great job of explaining that… so I’ll let the video do the talking…
Qu... |
| 12.07.2018 | The Logical Evolution of Private Markets: A new class of company. | Recently I attended a lunch where we were all asked to present something provocative/mind-blowing. I thought about that for a while and realized that I want my provocative thought to not be something that is a pie in the sky idea but instea... |
| 10.04.2018 | Ideas Matter aka The Execution Myth | I’ve written about how Ideas Matter before. I’ve also written about Finding a Problem Worth Solving. And I’ve also written about my Contrarian Advice for Graduating Students.
What follows is a set of slides from a talk I gave sometime last... |
| 10.10.2017 | The Pre-Seed FAQ | One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. I’ve been an avid reader of Dan’s Term Sheet while he was at Fortune, and now Pro Rata at Axios. His writings and knowledge of the inner workings of the VC/PE... |
| 14.08.2017 | Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund |
42: The Answer to the ultimate fund size?
Those of you who have read or watched the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are aware of the pop culture meme around the number 42. Yes, 42: The answer to life, the Universe, and everything. For... |
| 20.03.2017 | How to reference check your prospective investor | Of all the advice I have given founders over the years, one of the most important ones is to make sure they do reference checks on their prospective investors. When founders do their homework on investors, they make informed choices about w... |
| 02.03.2017 | Don’t let success get to your head | Dear Founders,
I know you are all super busy. So I put the key message I want you to get out of this post right in the title of the post. But I really do want you to read on and try to understand and internalize what I’m trying to say here... |
| 24.01.2017 | Startup Metamorphosis: The Story of Bugsee | We’ve all heard over and over again that “Startups are hard,” but it’s a hollow statement that just bounces off until you really experience it yourself. You have to feel it viscerally in order for it to really sink in. That very experience ... |
| 05.01.2017 | Computing vs Medicine | In high school, one of the teachers who I respected a lot (she was also feared by a lot of my peers for being a strict disciplinarian) pulled me aside one day and suggested that I should really consider studying Biology and consider medicin... |
| 27.10.2016 | Rethinking Founder Vesting | So much of what we do in the tech industry is about innovation, disruption, and changing the status quo. But, when it comes to how we go about doing that some of the smaller details tend to get re-used based on previous norms and templates ... |
| 14.09.2016 | Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) | A couple of years ago I was talking with a company that wanted to build robots. Their proposed price point for the robots was about $20K per unit. It would be a brand new product, that people had never really seen or experienced before, and... |
| 21.07.2016 | You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D | I started my tinkering with hardware first. As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market, and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. It was... |
| 30.06.2016 | VC Cold Email Outreach: “The Only Winning Move is Not to Play” |
Every few weeks one of the founders of K9 Ventures’ portfolio companies forward over an email they’ve received from a “Partner” at a VC firm. And every time I go through the same ritual, explaining to the founder when to respond, when... |
| 23.05.2016 | Manu Kumar on The Twenty Minute VC |
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting with Harry Stebbings from The Twenty Minute VC.
Harry has done a phenomenal job of getting some of the top people in venture capital on his show and had high-quality, high-bandwidth, and chock f... |
| 18.04.2016 | Gradescope: AI for Grading and Assessment |
“I love grading” — I doubt those words have ever been uttered in earnest! The only times I’ve ever heard them or even used them is with a healthy dose of sarcasm. Lot’s of people (me included) will say “I love teaching,” but that love for... |
| 26.01.2016 | Stealth is Overrated |
“US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft” by US Navy employee – http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-sea.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.
I’ve tweeted this before…
…and I’ve said it to founders on more occas... |
| 14.01.2016 | Everlaw Raises Series A led by a16z | Today K9 Ventures’ portfolio company Everlaw announced that it has raised $8.1M in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from K9 Ventures. I couldn’t be more excited about Everlaw’s Series A round as it reflects a ... |
| 02.11.2015 | 3 contrarian pieces of advice for graduating students | I love teaching (Although I hate grading, but that’s why I invested in Gradescope. More on that some other time). Every time I interact with students, I find myself repeating the same contrarian advice to them over and over again. So I figu... |
| 26.10.2015 | Asking for Feedback | We’re becoming and increasingly data driven culture. Whether it is my children’s school, my bank, the last hotel stay, a car service, a visit to the doctor’s office — everyone thinks and believes (rightly so) that they need to collect data ... |
| 19.10.2015 | It’s Not Easy applied to Venture Capital | Note: If you’re a founder, stop reading this post now. Your job is to build your company and listening to VCs pontificate about their industry doesn’t do you any good. If you build a good company, investors will hunt you down. If you don’t,... |
| 12.10.2015 | #PeakVC |
Earlier today I tweeted:
But I realized shortly after tweeting this that there is so much nuance packed into that one term #PeakVC that it requires a lot more than 140 characters.
So here are some of the things I was thinking about wh... |
| 04.10.2015 | Working to Walk: Designing my Walking Desk | It’s Sunday. I could have stayed home and worked from home for a couple of hours (while the kids are in language school), but instead I chose to come in to the office and work here instead. There were two driving factors for me to come in t... |
| 04.10.2015 | Pictures from #FriendsOfK9 2015 | Pictures from the #FriendsOfK9 event on Thursday, September 17th are in!
Check them out by clicking through to the album on Facebook…
#FriendsOfK9 2015
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| 21.09.2015 | Learning outside the classroom: HCI in the Real World | One of my reasons for going back to school for a PhD after doing my own startups was that I love the academic environment. I either TA’d or taught for 9 out of my 16 quarters at Stanford. It’s refreshing to be surrounded by smart people, an... |
| 08.09.2015 | Space Matters: Unveiling The Kennel |
In April 2014, in the post Making Moves, I wrote about K9’s impending move to a new space and outlined my reasons for leaving downtown Palo Alto. I loved being in downtown Palo Alto, but it was simply becoming too expensive to be able to ... |
| 08.09.2015 | Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures |
The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety.
There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not.
What ever... |
| 04.08.2015 | Being an investor, in four paragraphs | Most days I love what I do, but some days are rough; filled with tough decisions (good ones and bad ones) that are often time sensitive in nature, and involve conflicting interests.
The most difficult part however is that as an investor I ... |
| 01.07.2015 | Dead Ant Dead Ant! |
Every so often, I get pitched a really cool idea for a mobile app. In fact, sometimes I really like the idea, but still end up passing on investing or sometimes passing even on taking a meeting. My explanation of why I’m passing, goes som... |
| 24.06.2015 | Auth0: Solving the Identity Crisis |
We have a problem. The first step to solving that problem is acknowledging it exists. And the second step to solving that problem is start using Auth0.
Twenty years ago, most of us had maybe one password, and most often a single identity... |
| 18.06.2015 | Seed Is The New A – #PreMoney 2015 Talk |
As always I welcome your thoughts and feedback.
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| 05.06.2015 | The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue |
Note: This is a long post and it’s based on reflecting on a couple of years of observations in the venture industry. It’s a work-in-progress and I expect to update (last update 10 June) and refine the content, especially in the next week ... |
| 28.05.2015 | Startup Revenue Milestones | At K9 we invest in companies which have a clear/direct revenue model and typically don’t invest in companies that follow the Ubiquity first Revenue Later (URL) revenue model made famous by Eric Schmidt in 2007. In my discussions with K9 por... |
| 20.05.2015 | Fundraising is for CEOs |
I’ve been on the receiving end of many many pitches by this point both via email and in person. One of the patterns that I have seen is that for pre-seed and seed stage companies (could be for later stages like Series A and B as well, b... |
| 06.05.2015 | Solo Co-founders |
The title of this post is an oxymoron — but it is intentional as it most succinctly captures the essence of this post.
Conventional wisdom in the startup world dictates that two founders are ideal for a startup. There are lots of famous ... |
| 12.03.2015 | Osmo Masterpiece: No more fear of drawing |
I still remember pleading with my elder sister to help me draw the diagrams for my Biology class. She could draw the leaf with perfect proportions and beautiful veins. Her microscope and her digestive system looked so much better than min... |
| 26.02.2015 | Founders on a Mission | I’ve often repeated that the definition of entrepreneurship is “Insane perseverance in the face of complete resistance” (something I learned from my professor and mentor the late Jack Thorne). Put differently, there are some founders for wh... |
| 10.02.2015 | Finding a Problem Worth Solving |
Patagonia, Ben O’Bryan
When we started in the PhD program in Computer Science at Stanford, Prof. Rajeev Motwani, who was the “default PhD advisor” for all incoming PhD students told us that our only priority should be to find a research ... |
| 20.01.2015 | Manu Kumar in discussion with Joe Beninato |
Last fall, Joe Beninato interviewed K9 Ventures founder and Chief Firestarter, Manu Kumar, on his weekly webcast FounderLine
Manu talks about the history of K9 Ventures including the origin of the firm’s name. Joe and Manu also talk abou... |
| 24.07.2014 | When Vinod Khosla answered my question with a non-verbal | No, not that kind of non-verbal gesture.
I believe this was in April 2010 and if memory serves me correct it was an event hosted at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos by Sand Hill Angels, where Vinod Khosla gave a talk. I was relativ... |
| 30.06.2014 | Strong (Math) Foundations | When I was an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon, I took a class in Linear Algebra. The class was taught by a visiting graduate student, not by a Carnegie Mellon professor. The instructor of this class was *so* bad that ever since taking that... |
| 22.05.2014 | The Ingenious Osmo | Ingenuity. Ingenuity is a beautiful thing. It’s a beautiful word. It is at the heart of engineering. It is also something I strive to have in every company that K9 Ventures invests in. A lot startup ideas are an incremental or marginal impr... |
| 29.04.2014 | Making Moves | For all the stuff we hear in the press about Venture Capital, one thing that you don’t hear about as much is that operating a (small) venture fund is really similar to operating a “small business.” Yes, while we strive to fund the next big ... |
| 10.04.2014 | The New Venture Landscape | In May 2011, I wrote the post: Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral. That post got a lot of attention because back then all the buzz was about “Super Angels.” The venture landscape was evolving and had reached a point where Super An... |
| 14.03.2014 | Partner, Partner, Partner | Shortly after wrapping up our PhDs from Stanford CS, my peer group had a running inside joke. Whenever we would meet at an event, we would greet each other with “Doctor, Doctor, Doctor.” It’s hard to describe in words, but you have to imagi... |
| 21.02.2014 | If I had a hammer… | If I had a hammer,
I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening,
All over this land.
So goes The Hammer Song by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. Well, most VCs have just one tool in their toolbox. And yes, they use the tool to hammer in th... |
| 19.02.2014 | A VC trick and a related startup mistake | There is a fundamental information imbalance in the startup world that stems from the fact that most founders are raising money for the first time, but most investors are not investing for the first time. This used to be a much bigger issue... |
| 15.02.2014 | 4 Rules of M&A for Startup Founders | The following post was written by @TomioGeron for ExitRound based on an interview with me and was published on the ExitRound blog on January 9th, 2014. It is being reproduced in its entirety here with permission from the author…
Manu Kumar... |
| 15.02.2014 | Producers and Consumers on Social Media | I’m making a concerted effort to start blogging again on a more frequent basis. It’s not that I have suddenly discovered lots of free time. However, I’ve decided that it’s time to change priorities.
In my attempt to keep up with the demand... |
| 12.02.2014 | Protip for nascent startups on payroll cycles | If you ask most startups how often they run payroll, the most common answer will be: “Twice a month.” Now ask them why they run payroll twice a month, and they will give you a puzzled look and then probably respond with, “I thought that’s h... |
| 11.02.2014 | The problem with getting an MBA | I was reading Dan Primack‘s Term Sheet this morning and saw the part about Chamath Palihapitiya making waves at HBS by telling current MBA candidates that “the overwhelming majority of us would not look favorably on a company started by one... |
| 10.02.2014 | Watch out for the Board Observer request | Ah, I love it when someone cancels a meeting with me at the last minute. It’s like found time. So liberating to have an unscheduled hour that I can use for whatever I like. Anyways…
I wanted to use some of this time to briefly make a point... |
| 04.02.2014 | An Email Apology | Those that know me well know that I’m generally quite anal about email. To date, I’ve never declared email bankruptcy — despite being advised numerous times to do so. I read every email I receive (excluding obvious spam and mass emails) and... |
| 14.11.2013 | Coin: the missing link in payments | It’s 2013. We have a super computer in our pockets (or purses), but the way we pay for things hasn’t changed a whole lot. Yes, we don’t carry a lot of cash any more, but we all carry multiple credit cards. And the credit card hasn’t changed... |
| 19.07.2012 | Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund | I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P. – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund.
K9 Ventures started investing in 2009 with our first fund, K9 Ventures, L.P., which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-... |
| 12.06.2012 | The Curse of Over-Capitalization | I’ve written before about how Capital Efficiency doesn’t exist and is an oxymoron. However, there is an important corollary to the non-existence of Capital Efficiency and that is The Curse of Over Capitalization.
Some days in Silicon Valle... |
| 31.05.2012 | Hope and Numbers | [I often end up repeating the same things to different founders. Some things I’ve said often enough that they are probably worth committing to writing in a blog post.]
One of the questions I get asked very often is “What does it take to ge... |
| 02.05.2012 | Boomerang Calendar — scheduling done right | One of the downsides of being an investor is that you spend a lot of time in meetings. What’s worse is that most of these meetings need to be scheduled. And yes, in 2012, we all still mostly schedule meetings via email. Consequently, a fair... |
| 25.04.2012 | Torbit Insight – Real User Measurement of Web Performance | Over a decade ago, the big bottlenecks for web performance were server load and network bandwidth. Lots of companies sprung up in the Web 1.0 era to help resolve these problems. The most well known and most successful one of course being Ak... |
| 10.12.2011 | On Geography | One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography. Specifically, K9 only invests in startups where the entire team is located in the SF Bay Area. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no compa... |
| 21.11.2011 | Founder Liquidity | Note: The content of this post is part opinion and part observation/speculation. Before you read it, please note that I AM NOT A LAWYER and I AM NOT AN ACCOUNTANT. This is by no means legal advice, or tax advice, and if you’re in a situatio... |
| 16.11.2011 | ‘Capital Efficiency’ doesn’t exist | When I started K9 Ventures, I did so based on a specific investment thesis which had a clear set of investment criteria. One of those criteria was ‘Capital Efficiency.’ We hear that term lobbied around often these days. It comes up most com... |
| 11.10.2011 | Congratulations IndexTank! | - |
| 12.08.2011 | Fifteen Years Later | Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University, I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. The article was really a response to a concept that Larry Ellison from ... |
| 10.08.2011 | Welcoming @Occipital! | - |
| 05.07.2011 | Congratulations @BackType! | I’m pleased to announce that K9 Ventures’ portfolio company BackType (@BackType) has been acquired by Twitter. Huge congratulations to the founding team of Christopher Golda (@golda) and Michael Montano (@michaelmontano)!
I was first intro... |
| 23.06.2011 | card.io: Like Square, but without the square | It’s been a busy week folks! I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). As the name suggests, card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in mobile applicat... |
| 22.06.2011 | The Making of Lytro | This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. In walks Ren Ng, introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng,... |
| 27.05.2011 | Ideas Matter | There is this common adage that gets thrown around in startup circles that “Ideas don’t matter, and it’s all about the execution“. In fact, you can see for yourself what Google says when you search for “It’s not the idea, it’s the execution... |
| 19.05.2011 | Startups: Just say NO to outsourcing, contracting, and distributed teams | One of the 5 necessary but not sufficient criteria I use for evaluating investments for K9 Ventures is that the entire team must be together and be local to the Bay Area. In fact, I have an explicit exception for companies that rely on outs... |
| 14.05.2011 | Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral | The press loves the term Super Angels. They use it at almost every opportunity they get and sometimes even when they don’t have the right opportunity for it. In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and t... |
| 27.04.2011 | The investment that didn’t happen | Note: All information contained in this post is based on my best understanding and perception of what transpired. I have confirmed with the founders that none of the information contained herein is deemed confidential and is therefore fair ... |
| 01.04.2011 | Our latest investment: iWalk | K9 Ventures is pleased to welcome to its kennel, our latest portfolio company, iWalk, Inc. iWalk is founded by industry veterans Caesar Shepherd and Sarah Husky, both of who have 7x the experience in the space compared to any other hot dog.... |
| 22.03.2011 | Thoughts on Convertible Notes |
There has been a lot of noise in the Valley lately about how most seed stage deals are now being done as convertible notes. In fact, PG from Y Combinator has proclaimed that that it is how things will be going forward. That might well be ... |
| 26.01.2011 | Congrats Team CardMunch! |
CardMunch announced today that it has been acquired by LinkedIn! The CardMunch acquisition marks the debut exit for K9 Ventures. A huge congratulations to the team: Bowei Gai, Sid Viswanathan, and Sudeep Yegnashankaran for having built an... |
| 11.09.2010 | Investment Criteria | Someone on Quora asked me a question regarding my investment criteria for K9. I figured it would be good to cross post the response here as well.
I use the following necessary, but not sufficient filters to qualify the startups I look at f... |
| 13.08.2010 | Revenue Development | In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and clien... |
| 10.08.2010 | Twitter Best Practices for Startups | Twitter has become part of almost every startups marketing and engagement strategy. It’s become a channel. Since some of my portfolio companies (@crowdflower, @twilio, @dnanexus, @highlightcam, and most recently @cardmunch) have been using ... |
| 04.08.2010 | CardMunch: Business Cards Solved | I am super excited about today’s launch of CardMunch, Inc. CardMunch is a K9 Ventures portfolio company. In fact, it is one of K9’s first concept-stage investments — where the co-founders and K9 ventures worked together to develop the idea ... |
| 24.06.2010 | Friends of K9 Event | Here are some pictures from the Friends of K9 event on Monday, June 21st at the Computer History Museum. Thanks to everyone for coming and making it a very special and memorable launch for K9 Ventures.
A very special thanks to Ron Yeh fo... |
| 13.05.2010 | #20tweets (updated) | Here are the slides from a talk I gave at a Carnegie Mellon Alumni event in the Bay Area today. #20tweets is tweet-sized advice for founders of tech startups. In the presentation I went into more detail and provided some rationale/anecdotes... |
| 28.04.2010 | Announcing K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed stage fund | I’m pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed-stage fund.
K9 Ventures, L.P. is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. The fund will be deployed over a period o... |
| 22.03.2010 | The truth about the Startup Visa | Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry) recently authored an article that ran on Business Insider. The article was sensationally titled ‘The Startup Visa Act Must Be Stopped‘ and in it Pascal describes his reservations about the Startup Visa propo... |
| 26.10.2009 | Stanford Roundtable discussion on US Immigration Policy #startupvisa | On Saturday, October 24th, Stanford University hosted the Stanford Roundtable. The renowned interviewer Charlie Rose moderated a discussion titled: ‘The Road Back: From Economic Meltdown to Renewal’. The archived webcast video is available ... |
| 24.09.2009 | My story and support for the Founders Visa |
In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator, who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. Brad Feld (B... |
