What is the biggest enemy of a startup?
In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones, came by to visit us at the office. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to...
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Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots
A little known fact about me is that my paternal grandmother was a farmer. When we would visit her I remember running along the paths surrounded by fields of rice, wheat, grape vines, and apricots....
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Startups are never straight lines
This is a recent tweet-storm that I wanted to cross post here as well as I feel so strongly about the lessons. 1/ So much of building a product/company is about progressive discovery. You build...
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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli
Pragli is a virtual office for remote teams that facilitates faster communication and increased closeness between teammates. Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of...
View ArticleI Believe
Today was K9 Ventures’ annual meeting. Each year that I do this, I’m amazed at what K9 founders and K9 portfolio companies have accomplished and I’m grateful to the K9 LPs for the ability to do what I...
View ArticleThe First Close Podcast w/Manu Kumar
I had the pleasure of chatting with Jessica Straus (@jstraus) at Carta, under the creative eyes and ears of Theo Miller (@theocmiller) of Hit Start Media, for an episode of The First Close podcast. We...
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Introducing Avoma: Meeting Intelligence
https://www.avoma.com I’m pleased to announce and support the launch of Avoma, a K9 Ventures’ portfolio company that is making all of us who spend time in meetings more productive by utilizing AI. One...
View ArticleHit Start Media – Enabling Enterprise Companies to Own Their Narrative
Hit Start Media is my latest investment for K9. Historically, I have avoided content companies. In fact, if you look at my investment criteria you’ll notice that media is filtered out. But Hit Start...
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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates
It has been a while since I posted to the K9 Ventures blog. I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company....
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State of Venture in Fall 2023
Earlier this week, I held the annual meeting for K9 Ventures. As I mentioned in the meeting, I am grateful to the K9 Founders for allowing me to be along for the ride in the companies, and I am also...
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