I make it a practice to always think the best of everyone. I didn’t use to. When younger, I was a world-class Calvinist cynic. You were damned until overwhelming evidence proved otherwise. As I have put that lamentable attitude behind me, life and human relationships have gotten much sweeter. I…

Community has always been part of the human experience. We have continuously sought a sense of belonging throughout time. Perhaps this derives from our tribal instincts when teamwork was a requirement to stay alive and revolved around the physical safety of your group. …

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? This is the theme underlying the breakthrough historical musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was a driven entrepreneur at heart. An immigrant, the son of poverty from a nowhere island, he rose through drive and initiative to become America’s most unique founding father and…

As I write this, Britain is sweltering under the hottest temperatures in its history, wildfires speckle Europe, storms ravage the southern US, and extended heat waves and drought are predicted for the rest of the summer. We see these, clearly, as effects of global warming, and we think the heating…

Given the current state of, well, almost everything, it seemed like a good time to offer up some deep thoughts on dealing with adversity and getting through challenging moments. So, here is our collection of Quotes to Entrepreneur By — Hard Times Edition: “We must accept finite disappointment, but we…

The Biblical summer of 2022, with its war, pestilence, food shortages, and a plague of financial difficulties impacts startups of all types. Weak companies that consume cash may well not survive this hot summer. But even the strongest companies will feel the burn. A number of our most successful portfolio…

We all know of the winter of our discontent. This will be worse. Think of it as the summer of our disintegration. The full sense of that word is “the coming apart of things once cohesive,” and that pretty much captures the core of the impending chaotic season. What is…

I love it when science supports my previously held prejudices. So is the case with a plethora of studies that show that swearing is good for us. All I can say to these findings is….damn straight! In one study at Keane University in New Jersey, students had their hands dipped…

It looks like we are in for a long hot summer in pretty much every aspect of the phrase. Macroeconomics. The macroeconomic signals are the worst in decades. Inflation is soaring, and that seems locked in for some time. Certainly, the disruptions in food and fertilizer that derive from the…