Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) This is only relevant for non-technical founders like myself. Take advantage of this. You’re not alone.

Netherlands 159

Netherlands Technical Review Software Review Cofounder 159

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

There’s no denying that Bill Gates is a visionary, founding Microsoft in 1975 and monopolizing the tech industry for decades. However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60