Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality..

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch..

Women in my world are respected as much as men..

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts..

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dun….

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure..

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate..

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest..

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you..

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining.

One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal ….

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher t….

I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I d….

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of ….

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with….

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the prob….

America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is….

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art..

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about..

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job..

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail..