2026 Posts
AI tools to turbo-charge hiring
We're hiring up aggressively at Equal and across many of our portfolio companies in 2026. As much as I love
2025 Posts
Market shifts in the investor zeitgeist
Insights from 150+ podcasts w/ top investors, insiders, and executives Podcasts can be an incredible medium for uncovering insight about
2025 Posts
Winning in Vertical AI: The 2 Pathways for Success
Originally published on the Equal Ventures newsletter As we highlighted in our recent Insurance x AI and Logistics x AI
2025 Posts
2025 Construction Tech Request for Startups
Where insiders would like to see more startups and innovation This post is a collaboration with Last Week in ConTech,
2025 Posts
Logistics x AI | The First Wave of Gen AI
The AI innovators transforming the U.S. logistics sector Co-authored with Chelsea Zhang & Christo Ritter. Initially posted on the Equal
2025 Posts
Insurance x AI | The First Wave of Gen AI in P&C
Co-Authored with Christo Ritter & Adam Chadroff. Initially appeared on the Equal Ventures Blog. The $800 Billion U.S. property &
2025 Posts
Share Donors in Retail & eCommerce
Over the last few weeks, I shared a series of posts signaling opportunities and industry shifts across the retail &
2025 Posts
The Major Forces Transforming Commerce
A couple of weeks back, we highlighted the major problems and opportunities in the retail & eCommerce industry that investors
2025 Posts
The Grand Problems & Opportunities | Retail & eCommerce Edition
This post originally appeared on The SandHill Newsletter here. It is Part 1 of a 3 part series – Part
2025 Posts
What to Expect from VCs if the Downturn Persists
This post originally appeared on the SandHill Newsletter here. Around this time last year, I was getting ready to re-enter
2022 Posts
Studying the Fastest Growing Companies
Whether you’re a founder, an operator, or an investor, studying the markets around us can be an extremely valuable activity.
2021 Posts
Mapping the Insights that Drive Startup Ideas & Theses
Over the past 6 years, I’ve been fortunate to work across multiple VC firms that have active incubation and thesis-driven
2021 Posts
Mental Models for Startup & Thesis Ideation — Visual Reference Guide
A few months back, I published a compilation of 20 mental models that entrepreneurs and investors leverage to develop new
2020 Posts
Systematic Ideation for Startups & Venture Theses – Part 2
20 Mental Models for Idea Generation Part 1 of this post can be found here. 11 — Digitizing Behaviors and
2020 Posts
Systematic Ideation for Startups & Venture Theses
This post originally appeared on Medium here As thesis-driven early-stage VCs, one of the activities that we’re frequently engaged in
2014 Posts
How much does it really cost to build a web startup?
$1,000? $10,000? $100,000? This post originally appeared on Medium here. Earlier this year, I decided I was going to take