Almost 14 years ago, my co-founders and I were accepted into the Y-Combinator program; since then, it’s had a profound impact on my career.

When I encounter teams from Europe that are visiting the Bay Area, there are some common patterns which will deter most investors based here in San Francisco.

For decades American Universities have been the envy of the World. With the brightest minds and the best facilities, these globally recognized institutions acted as a magnet for talent everywhere.

I meet a lot of talented founders who, frankly, need to work on more difficult problems. As a general rule, your idea should be to build something 10x better than what’s currently out there. Here’s why.

Meet Arya Kakodkar and Imaad Bukhari, the co-founders of OmniPlane and recipients of the Sterling Road Grant. They’re building a stylus pen that works on any surface for AR and VR headsets, a tool designed to make writing and drawing possible on any surface.

I owe a lot of people a sincere apology. For almost a decade as an investor, I have told just about everybody who couldn't, to 'learn to code'. It was the gateway to startup freedom.

Some companies are like catnip for investors, be it traction, founders, or customers, there are plenty of fundraising rounds each year where demand vastly outstrips supply.

If you’re building a company taking on a hard science problem, there is a tendency to avoid near term deadlines, as your larger milestones are too far away. This is a mistake, here’s why.

This week’s government news was dominated by Signalgate. All kinds of theories have been floated about how it occurred, who is responsible, and if the messages were really secret.

I meet a lot of great scientists who are trying to turn their research into a real business. However, there are some early decisions those founders often make which can really hurt later.

There’s a lot of talk about engineer salaries in the current AI boom, with many founders understandably hesitant to pay huge salaries to their early employees.

Over the last 12 months, we have seen an uptick in founders quitting on their startup pretty early in the building process. Here’s the main causes of those shutdowns.

I meet lots of founders who are trying to build a Superhuman. They dream of creating the perfect lawyer, accountant or driver; a completely infallible robot only capable of taking the most optimal actions.

I am always pushing founders in Europe to move to San Francisco. Just like if you want to be an A-List Actor, you should probably be in LA, if you want to be the best founder you can be, SF is the place.

I started using Gmail ~20 years ago, back then it was a huge leap forward over Yahoo and Hotmail. Google gave you tons of space, and the speed was impressive. But 2 decades later, you can still only sort your inbox by time received.

You have to be incredibly resilient to build a company from idea to IPO. Almost everyone who has made it will tell you there were many times when their company almost shut down.

Large Geopolitical changes this week caused politics to enter many tech world discussions and the most obvious change has been in Europe. But is Europe now too weak to compete on its own?

When you get a term sheet from a VC, it’s usually a pretty happy moment after a lot of work. However, there’s often a few things in the first version of a VC’s term sheet that you might want to change.