With AI, I expect there will be a new startup model. Here are the constraints: Anyone building a co with a hard headcount constraint? What do ya think?

Part of writing the CBI newsletter is figuring out what ‘material’ will work on it. To do this, I use LinkedIn and Twitter. It’s pretty easy. One of my jobs is to write isht on the internet. Sometimes, that isht might be funny, insightful, irreverent (and oftentimes it’s none). I can figure out what’s good…

On April 17, 2017, my dad passed away pretty suddenly. It was the absolute worst day of my life. Today is the 5 year mark. I’ve realized over time what a strange thing grief is. In the beginning, it hit me every second. Every millisecond. I was drowning in grief 24×7. Over time, it becomes…

My 5 year old daughter is super into the game Uno. I think the word is addicted. If you’d agree to play 50 games with her, she’d do it in a heartbeat and then want to play 50 more.  It’s a great game. Strategy, bit of math, competition, etc.  When playing and she deals, I…

I started this blog almost 1 year ago (Feb 19th, 2013). Since then, I’ve blogged every single day. Except yesterday. It’s just after midnight and I’m packing to go on a short vacation with the family and scrambling to get some work done and it occurred to me “Shit – I didn’t do today’s blog…

I was in Newport Beach for the Corporate Venturing Conference earlier this week. About 20-25 of our clients were there so it was great to see them and break bread with them. And a lot of folks who should be our customers were there. I met many people who didn’t know CB Insights (yes –…

We published a brief on overhyped and over funded startups that didn’t hit expectations earlier today. All of them are consumer focused which makes sense given that is where hype is required. I also wonder if striking gold twice in consumer is harder than in enterprise. While enterprise has a huge relationship aspect that can…

Wrapping up a trip to Newport Beach and used Uber to get around exclusively. No car rental. I’m convinced that car ownership will be impacted over the long-term assuming Uber is not subsidizing fares. I stayed in Irvine with a friend and took uber to Newport Beach every day. An 18 mile ride cost $15-16.…

I’ve gotten several resumes in the last few days from people who said they’ve been active readers of the CB Insights newsletter for a while. I love this. While our newsletter’s intent is to help create awareness of our data and product among customers, this has been great to see. These are people who’ve been…

I read an absolutely insanely good investigative piece into the foreign money flowing into Time Warner Center condos by the NY Times. I cannot get my head around how much effort must have been required into researching this piece. And then the writing and editing that followed it.  And then the design and photographs on…

I read two things today about entrepreneurial failure.  One was a great long form piece by Alyson Shontell of Business Insider about Fab.com and one was by Tyson Ho about an unnamed diner in Manhattan which was shuttering. They were both well-written and painted very different pictures of failure. The story of a Fab was…

We had someone copy some of our stuff yesterday. I commented in an interview with Connie Loizos on StrictlyVC that drama is fun from time to time. I have had about 18 hours to reflect on this and I think I was wrong. Drama isn’t fun. It’s tiring and a distraction. And I’d made a…

We are a heads down, drama free group so today, when a Y Combinator company copied us, it resulted in some excitement for the team. Here is a post on the YC copycat that we published on our team blog earlier today. —————————– We’re really proud of our data and technology at CB Insights. We’re…