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Boulder is a very smart community.
I have a long history with Kansas City.
I'm usually an excruciatingly happy person.
One of my core values is diversity of everything.
While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.
I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.
On a daily basis, I pay almost no attention to the macro.
Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.
Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.
I can now check Oregon off the 'marathon in every state list.'
My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.
Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'
By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly.
St. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.
Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.
I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.
I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.
It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.
Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions.
My weight fluctuates between 205 and 220, depending on how much I pay attention to it.
You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.
I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has - it's a great model.
What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.
A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.
In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.
I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.
Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.
In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.
I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.
Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
I feel like an email cross-dresser - I use a Microsoft product on my Apple product to access my Google product.
One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.
I'm not deeply involved in politics, but about 25% of the people I interact with in politics went to law school.
My view was, if I didn't like Boulder, I'd keep going west, except I never really wanted to live in the Bay Area.
I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.
Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.
That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.
By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.
I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.
I love using a targeted acquisition approach in conjunction with a business that has a clear strategy and strong organic growth.
As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.