Another Texas VC

Texas may be my home, but from 2007 to 2009 I lived in Chicago. During those two years I became active in the Venture world and gained a boat load of friends and mentors in the process. Maybe that’s why I love South by Southwest so much, for one week a year all of my [...]

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To an outsider, the International Consumer Electronics Show must seem like a wonderland of new discoveries, where brave electronics manufacturers unveil jaw dropping discoveries such as X-Ray lenses that can see through women’s clothes (an actual booth I ran into at CES this year!). The real power of CES comes from understanding where the iterative improvements [...]

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Overview and Pricetag:  Following the House of Representatives by a few weeks, the Senate is about to pass HR 3590, a 2074 page bill to enlarge access to health insurance for the vast majority of Americans. As previously discussed, the House bill wasn’t a revolution but evolution of the status quo. The Senate bill reflects an even [...]

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It is surprisingly hard to find details on HR 3962 which passed the house this weekend. I decided to fix that. Here is my quick summary of the Bill. My comments are not comprehensive, but paint a broad picture of what the bill is about.    Overview and Pricetag: The Bill will cost just north of [...]

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My quick advice to entrepreneurs trying to make money off of banner advertising is to stop. I recently got an analyst report that puts the average remnant CPM at around 35 cents. To put that into practical terms, your average web-page with an ad-sense banner page only earns $100 for every 286,000 impressions. Boy that’s [...]

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