Monthly Archives: October 2019

VCs get a bad rap, but I’ve always enjoyed talking with them. They see a lot of stuff, so, they are great sources of market information. It’s true that they sometimes screw up companies, but I don’t think it is in the way most people assume. It’s rarely that they are greedy, forcing you to […]

One of the favorite parts of modern video games, for many people, is designing their avatars.  I’ve been thinking about this because I’m looking for AI to create an area I call “synthetic social media.”  But so far I haven’t seen any companies in this space.  Since it doesn’t exist, I don’t know exactly what shape […]

I was chatting with someone the other day about customer development and I asked a simple question. Now that customer development has become so common among venture backed tech startups, has it moved the needle at all on outcomes? I don’t have any hard data but, it seems to me that just as many startups […]