Miles To Go.

(MS) Since there is so much buzz around Sharing, (I’ve written about it recently here, here and here) and it’s key component, Trust, I’ve asked some experts to lend their opinions on my blog to fill out the color commentary. Here’s Charlie Green; Whether you call it “the sharing economy” or “collaborative consumption,” there’s a [...]

Every once in a lifetime or so, someone like Tom Yankus comes along, sets his hand upon your shoulder and says “kid… fill in the blank”. And it remains with you all through the years, etched in  corner of your mind, to be repeated and reused in all sorts of forks in the road of [...]

I am asked a lot about my investment criteria, but lately many of the questions have focussed on my criteria in the sharing economy. This is pretty amazing, because less than a year ago, I could not have told anyone what the sharing economy was. Now sharing is something I do love, as I abhor [...]

  Channel Shackleton This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices (SFO’s) by The Family Office Association and Vaux les Ventures.  For a complete copy, visit the FOA website. The Social Network is a hell of a movie, but the real people upon whom the characters were based have [...]

the woods are lovely, dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep miles to go before I sleep Robert Frost, in a poem of simplicity itself, captures the essence of the foundations of trust: promises kept. I was at Shared Squared NYC’s monthly learning event last night, [...]

This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices (SFO’s) by The Family Office Association and Vaux les Ventures. For a complete copy, visit the FOA website.  Any SFO considering allocating a portion of their assets in venture toward angel investing has to acknowledge the significant risks in the market. [...]

Don Draper and the Mad Men gang from Sterling Cooper return Sunday on AMC’s four-time Emmy Award winner, after a seemingly interminable 17 months away. But a lot has changed in the 17 month hiatus. Not with the sixties, in which the show is set, but the ‘teens in which it is viewed. The Mad Men of [...]

There is a yawning gap emerging in the world and I think this gap will define the advancement of societies, the creation of jobs,  and even the happiness of populations in the decades to come: it is access to mobile data and I call it Flintstones vs. Jetsons. (shout out to April Rudin for the headline). [...]