Over the past couple months I've taken time to catch myself up on all that's happened in crypto since my time with Onward Labs, and all I can say is my goodness - the amount of experimentation and innovation has been staggering this year. This is exciting because we are seeing financial services get completely … Continue reading Introducing: Crypto Por Favor
Author: Chris
Funday: A Retrospective
Me, rocking our beach server uniform. As the title of the post hints at, my co-founder and I recently decided to put Funday on an indefinite hiatus. I'm not writing this post as part of a pity party - rather, I'd like to share learnings and some of my beliefs that were strengthened due to … Continue reading Funday: A Retrospective
The Decision to Start a Company
Photo by Jeffrey Grospe on Unsplash For my next chapter, I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’m co-founding a company. I wanted to share my thought process in the hope that it may be helpful some day to anyone who finds themselves in a similar position to where I was. In late Summer, I began to consider starting … Continue reading The Decision to Start a Company
The Next Chapter
This past Friday was my last day at Human Ventures. I originally joined in June 2017 as an intern who was willing to do whatever it took to break into VC. Fortunately, my internship turned into a full-time role and for the past 2+ years I've been able to work alongside amazing individuals, including HV … Continue reading The Next Chapter
The Latinx Opportunity Pt. 2
A couple months back, I originally posted my thoughts on why the Latinx population presents a major market opportunity for entrepreneurs. Since then, I continued researching the space and wanted to share my new findings. Unique Behavioral Factors Families are very tight While I don't have any statistics to back this up, lived experience has … Continue reading The Latinx Opportunity Pt. 2
Confidence Games
I was speaking with a colleague last week about what typically goes through the mindset of a founder and about the crazy journey that is entrepreneurship. He brought up a saying he had heard from a founder a while back that stuck with him. This founder summed up the process of building something from scratch … Continue reading Confidence Games
New Investable Asset Classes
I've been closely following the evolution of technology democratizing investing as well as increasing access to services that were historically reserved for high net worth individuals. Companies such as Wealthfront, Betterment, and Republic have been offering the masses access to services and investment opportunities not widely available before the tech era. I see this trend … Continue reading New Investable Asset Classes
Atoms vs Bits (Brick and Mortar Edition)
Source Last week’s WeWork IPO filing had many folks in a tizzy about how much cash the business is hemorrhaging and what implications this has for its sustainability, especially if a recession strikes soon. This got me thinking about a topic that I’ve seen debated extensively in the VC ecosystem: Atoms vs Bits. This historical … Continue reading Atoms vs Bits (Brick and Mortar Edition)
Hidden Network Effects
Last week I read one of the best business model blog posts I've read in a long time, Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects by D'Arcy Coolican at a16z. I've long admired the power of network effects to build strong competitive moats and we've seen these become the foundation for massive … Continue reading Hidden Network Effects
The Power Law
Venture capital is a unique asset class for many reasons - there are typically minimal to no metrics to evaluate potential investments on, many of the business plans have never been tried before and require a leap of faith, and testing and learning is prioritized over scaling and optimizing (at the earliest stage / pre-product-market … Continue reading The Power Law
