Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of ….

I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consu….

Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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 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….

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….

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

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 ….