Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR

The last week has seen some intense scrutiny about the honesty and trustworthiness of some tech startup companies, with a former employee b...

When talking about what sort of companies get funding from VC, I have a saying:  Even when you take into account that VCs will fund...

When you're a company showing a non-existent or early stage product off, you want to give engineers, investors, and the press an idea o...

Someone sent me this image today, thinking it was really funny. It's kinda bizarre to me - Who doesn't know that Will Smith is fr...

Raising money from any source can be difficult - you have to persuade whoever has money that you're the best place for it to go, and yo...

There's a saying in engineering: "In any product development project you can have it good, fast, or cheap. Pick which two....

It seems I'm not alone in my disgust at the leadership of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and how they allowe...

Yesterday afternoon, Elizabeth Holmes, embattled CEO of Theranos, took to the stage at AACC to finally reveal the science and data behind t...

The term "Inflection Point" is used repeatedly during startup pitches, and is one of those overused terms you grow a little sick ...

A few months ago I started blogging about my experiences in Silicon Valley and at startups, with a focus on the way the startup ecosystem a...