This evening I spent some time helping a former colleague find a new job. He joined a startup a few months back that has been particularly hard hit by the Covid-19 economic slowdown. While I am generally happy to support
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The Black Swan Entrepreneurs
As the CTO and founder of CloudHealth Technologies (acquired by VMware in 2018), I am intimately familiar with the razors edge existence on which startups live. A startup typically derives its revenue from a single product or service, spends more
5 Tips To Weathering a Downturn as Technical Professional
With the coronavirus, a volatile stock market, shrinking 401Ks, and the upcoming US election, it’s hard not to be a little on edge of late. I’m not saying we are headed for a recession, but it’s hard
My Hot Red Sports Car
When CloudHealth was still a private company, I would regularly get congratulations from people over the performance of our business. If we were raising money, it would be common for a potential investor to say: “Congratulations on a really impressive
My 1st Lesson In Incremental Delivery
Early in my career I worked on a new service called Venues at an MIT Media Labs spinout called FireFly. The service was an early version of a social network like MySpace that was focused on engaging consumers in chat,
On Baseball & Startups
In spite of the fact the Red Sox are playing like they're in spring training, I'm glad to have baseball back in my life. My interest in baseball and technology have been intertwined since I wrote my first serious software