I first became aware of TechStars a couple of years ago and was totally inspired by their documentary videos. If you haven’t heard of TechStars, watch Mark Suster in the below interview. In one sentence, TechStars helps entrepreneurs take their idea and build a real business out of it by giving them mentoring, office space, ...

I love this piece of advice about being in stealth mode: Share your idea with others to get feedback instead of protecting it like a delicate flower. If you’re really fearful someone’s going to come along and steal your idea, you’re operating under a fall sense of security; based on my experience, it seems like ...

I wrote this recap of Mark Suster’s podcast from this week in venture capital episode #47. You can watch the full episode here.  As a very early StackOverflow user (number 168!) it was great to see two people I follow and admire on the same podcast. Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University ...