Instead of blaming American VCs for “taking” their high-potential startups, ecosystems should stop and look in the proverbial mirror.

Each week, I get emails from founder expressing frustration about fundraising. My advice? Get over it.

This weekend, the U.S. shattered the trust of an entire nation. And Canadians are pissed.

The emergence of DeepSeek R1 has shaken the tech industry to its core. But in hindsight, it was inevitable.

What makes an effective fundraising email and how do you create a request-for-introduction or a cold outreach email?

Why does it seem harder to find communities of technical founders in some ecosystems than in others?

I’ve started to discuss my next project with people close to me and one question keeps coming up: “What’s it called?”

Out with the old, in with the new. Here are 5 Things I Think I Think: Q4 2024.

Here are my 10 most popular posts for 2024.

Believe it or not, the contemporary evolution of startups in many ways mirrors the evolution of video games. Here are 3 lessons founders should take from the history of video games.

If you’ve never been to San Francisco before, where do you start?

Here are 10 resources for UK founders landing in San Francisco for the first time.

If you’ve never been to San Francisco before, where do you start?

Here are 10 resources for Canadian founders landing in San Francisco for the first time.

Venture capital is not broken. But it is evolving.

No aspect of Silicon Valley etiquette is more jarring to newly-arrived founders than the fact that it is culturally acceptable to not reply to emails.

There is a startup I cofounded that almost no one knows about. This is the story of Project Stag.

Why is ownership percentage such a big deal to VCs?

There’s growing evidence that spending time away from work — particularly in nature — not only has a powerful effect on our health and well-being but improves our productivity.

One of the biggest cultural differences between the US and other countries is the degree to which Americans value and celebrate risk-taking.

If an investor knows more about your competition than you do, that’s a problem.

Here are the steps that occur between signing a VC term sheet and the money being deposited into your startup’s bank account.