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Last week I wrote about how developer tools are consumer software, but there are also obvious ways in which they are enterprise software. Since this is more or less the traditional way to think about (and value) developer tools companies, I won’t belabor it…

When I left Teespring to start angel investing full-time, the first two people I talked to were former Teespring board members — Keith Rabois and Sam Altman. Keith’s advice, as usual, was highly tactical and proven right over time (another short blog post there.) Sam’s advice was to simply not do it…

Breaking down the Pivotal S-1

The following is a reformatting of my tweetstorm from March 30, 2018. I worked at Pivotal Labs as a…

A few years ago, I answered this question on Quora which somehow, for a time, propelled me to the top of the Quora contributors on Test-Driven Development, ahead of the guy who basically invented it. I’ve been talking to a lot of companies lately…

Recent articles declaring ten schools the “Top Universities for Female Founders” ignore the much greater gender diversity among founding teams from Olin College (53%), which far outpaces the industry average of 17%. Compared to other colleges…

Read: The College That Produces Founders at 5 Times the Rate of Stanford

Several of the comments on the Hacker News posting of my blog post on Olin Startups and startup density pose the same questions and concerns about methodology, so…