Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR

Much of my writing is about pointing out the darker nature of the VC/startup/tech media ecosystem, and that is most easily highlighted by c...

I've not been commenting much on uBeam lately - there's really no need, I've said pretty much what I felt needed saying, and I...

A few weeks ago Nick Bilton of Vanity Fair wrote an article on one of my favorite companies, Theranos. " How Elizabeth Holmes' Hou...

Energous had a rally in their stock recently, having reached around $18 from only $14 a day or so ago. What happened to cause this rally? P...

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....