A Q&A with Evercoast CEO Ben Nunez on the state of Hologram Technology in the age of COVID-19 It’s been (gulp!) 43 years since my 4 year old brain first tried to process the idea of holograms thanks to Princess Leah and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yet, since that time we’ve not…

Should we be worried about the increasing privatization of space travel and exploration? As great as it was to see last weekend’s successful SpaceX launch (and what a welcome respite it was from the unrelenting drumroll of bad news we’ve been getting of late) you have to wonder about the…

5 Must-Reads for Founders and Entrepreneurs During the COVID-19 Isolation While some states are now just starting to reopen most of us are still officially in some form of quarantine or self-isolation. As busy as many of us still are — or, at least, try to be — it looks…

Shining a light on the LGBTQ+ data gap Any worthwhile social or economic policy must first find its footing on a level playing field and be anchored by a fundamental sense of fairness. Without the right data, though, achieving a truly level pitch is virtually impossible. Recently StartOut, whose mission…

Invest In What You Know — Warren Buffet’s annual shareholder letter came out over the weekend. The widely anticipated missive had observers pouring over it looking for insight into Berkshire’s operations (he wrote explicitly about succession plans), his take on the market (modestly bullish, despite lamenting the market’s “fickle” nature) and even his take on US…

With this weekend’s Indy 500 top of mind ask yourself: Is the CEO you’re investing in a Driver, a Crew Chief or a Mechanic? Over the last 5 years Revel has invested in 37 companies. Along the way we’ve had some amazing successes and others where the jury is still…

I recently returned from my second go-round at the SaaStr Annual event in San Jose and the atmosphere and sense of community that founder, Jason Lemkin, has generated there continues to impress. There were some 10,000 people in attendance and the event just keeps on growing. It helped highlight for…

Well, 2018 certainly was interesting. There was plenty of grist for the pessimists among us, though — for the more sanguine — there was also much to be hopeful about. Yet, for all of 2018’s many peaks and valleys it was a year that suggested more progress than regress when…

Change and innovation are generally not synonymous with global enterprises. The common conceit is that they are like massive tankers attempting to change direction in a narrow, crowded harbor. They’re slow, plodding and anything but nimble. That’s because the received wisdom is that at a certain point businesses become too…