Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR

"Millstones of Justice turn exceedingly slow, but grind exceedingly fine." ~John Bannister Gibson (1780-1853), American jurist,...

I've been snowed under the last week or so and have had no time to write anything, so my various articles-in-process are just on hold f...

Annoyingly busy and unable to post in detail until later, however two key stories in the press in the last 24 hours. First up, Theranos, wh...

One week shy of the year anniversary of John Carreyrou's article on Theranos that began to raise the awareness of what was going on...

Another definition of a term I use regularly - The Hawaiian Vacation Employee. This is the person on any sizable team who should be sent on...

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...