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2021 Commencement Speech, Close School of Entrepreneurship, Drexel University
I am honored to give the 2021 Commencement Speech for the Close School, an institution which......
My Favorite Kind of Founder
At a recent accelerator demo day, someone asked me what I look for in a founder. It took a bit of soul searching to construct my answer. Here’s what I came up with.....
Three Lessons Learned in Three Years of Investing
Here are the top three lessons I’ve learned or relearned about investing in order of importance....
Grocery Stores Are In So Much Trouble!
The news for grocery store chains has not been good recently. Amazon bought Whole Foods after its valuation...
My Experiments with Design Thinking
In early 2011, while I was working at Maxim, I signed up for a “Design Thinking Boot Camp” at Stanford’s d.school. I hoped it...
From Weighing Scale to 3D Fitness Tracker
What I learned from my four-year journey toward better health was that a) weight only loosely correla...
Data - The Most Valuable Resource
From every great era of civilization, a new technology has emerged that gave humans new capabilities. Ea...
What Would Peter Drucker Say About the Future?
One of my heroes is Peter Drucker. He recognized, before any of the other management thinkers of th...
Why It’s Better to Be Smart Than Clean!
Millions of words have been written about climate change and the need for clean energy, over the last...
Extracting Opportunity From The Hype
Often, we technologists rush headlong into developing a new technology without thinking of w...
The Exceptional Leader
The exceptional leader is one who follows instinct and intuition even when popular opinion points in a different direction, excels at both...
Avoid Hiring Someone Looking For A Job
Recruiting is by far the most difficult activity we do. It is the most important, yet least urgent of you...
