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I don’t like making predictions, but one prediction I do have is that many future big companies will be what I call “skin in the game startups” (you heard it here first). Having skin in the game simply refers to sharing risk and rewards with a counterparty. In startupland, angel investors have skin in the game: they give money to founders to help them start a business in exchange for equity with the hope that the business will become more valuable in the future. The investor is sharing the risk of the company (by outlaying their money), and if the company does well the investor will eventually reap grand returns.

I get asked all the time by strangers, something to the effect of “Can I pet your dog?”. People see her, think she’s cute, and feel a sudden strong urge to touch her. Some people will just reach out without asking, but the majority of people ask first. My pup at the Union Square dog run in Manhattan

Make something people want Y Combinator has a famous motto: make something people want. The first reference I could find to that motto was this blog post from Paul Graham.

I recently decided to start a new blog and rebuild my website. It’s something I’ve been planning to do for a while, and now, here it is. I’ve decided to publish on my own site rather than using a platform like Medium. Technical Foundation # For those who are interested, the site is built with Hugo for content management and Netlify for deployments. Hugo is a fantastic and very quick static site management tool. Netlify is a great product for deploying and hosting a website from Git.