I introduced this team at Techstars Seattle’s Demo Day last week so the cat is already out of the bag, but I wanted to make a more public announcement of our investment in TrueFacet. The founders — Tirath Kamdar and Chris Chan — moved from New York to Seattle just to participate in Techstars, and continue…

I’ve always been fascinated by the interplay between online and offline — finding out what aspects of a brand or service offering can be shifted online, and what elements of the experience are so “sticky” that customers will be willing to pay a premium to keep them in the real world. (As usual, this blog is continue…

Data-based decision-making is the norm in business — huge companies (e.g., Oracle, Salesforce, Tableau) have been built around the market for managing, measuring and visualizing the data flows in large enterprises. But even mature companies struggle to find enough humans — a.k.a. “Data Scientists” — with the skills to manage these tools and interpret and continue…

My long-time business partner Andy Sack just announced his resignation as Managing Director of Techstars Seattle. Together, we also announced that I’ll be taking on that role as soon as he wraps up the final details on his most recent class. This post shares some of the backstory on how that all came to pass, continue…