Building in Public: Founders Day Edition
Over the past year, we rebuilt Founders Day from the ground up, added a bunch of new features and unleashed version 3.0 to the world. How did it go?
Give Your Customers What They Want
What can this recent history of fast food teach us about AI? It turns out, a lot.
The Life and Death of Project Stag
There is a startup I cofounded that almost no one knows about. This is the story of Project Stag.
How Glean Raised a $1M Pre-Seed Round
How data analytics startup Glean raised a $1M pre-seed round…in 2012.
This Critical Lesson in MySpace's Failure is Still Relevant Today
I had a front-row seat for the rise and fall of MySpace. This critical mistake that MySpace made is still relevant to founders today.
The Moment of Truth
It was 2012. My cofounder and I were huddled around a laptop pitching Brad Feld, the "final boss" in our quest to secure a term sheet from Foundry Group.
The Genius of Creative Destruction Lab
If you’re a founder in Canada — or are involved in the Canadian tech scene in any way — then you’re familiar with the letters CDL. The Creative Destruction Lab helped create more than $19 Billion in equity value. And it's completely changed the Canadian tech landscape.
Wow, Did My Pitch Deck Suck
Long before I was a VC, I cofounded DataHero, the world’s first cloud BI company. I recently came across one of our old fundraising decks and boy, did it suck! Let’s look at all the mistakes we made in that deck.