Exploring Commercial Open Source: Databases
July 11, 2021One of my theses about open-source companies is that there are a few defined categories, and companies belonging to a category tend to…
Written by Sam Bhagwat, cofounder & chief strategy officer at Gatsby; programmer, analyst, writer; follow me on Twitter!
Modular Cooking For Parents and Founders
May 10, 2021As a first-generation American, I grew up eating Indian food, but the first recipe I learned how to cook, when I was 16, was a pasta dish. I…
Raising A Seed Round Part 9: Choosing Winner(s) and Structuring the Round
March 28, 2021Decide How To Weight Firm, Partner, and Valuation There are three basic “preferences” when fundraising: firm, partner, and valuation. Some…
Raising A Seed Round Part 8: Evaluating Investors In-Process & Handling Herd Dynamics
March 27, 2021As you start traversing the investor network, the interest level in your fundraise can change rapidly. In the beginning stages of a network…
Raising A Seed Round Part 7: Navigating Each Firm's Investment Process
March 26, 2021Persuading a firm to offer a term sheet is basically an enterprise sales process. You need to find and persuade a champion, then help them…
Raising A Seed Round Part 6: Managing Your Process Across All Prospective Investors
March 25, 2021Once you get “into the thick of it” you’re going to be quite time-constrained. You’ll need to do everything quickly — iterate on feedback…
Raising A Seed Round Part 5: Creating a Pitch Deck and Narrative
March 24, 2021The “deck” is one of the most commonly discussed elements of the fundraising process. There’s a lot of discussion on what makes a great deck…
Raising A Seed Round Part 4: Ranking and Evaluating VC Firms
March 23, 2021Let’s start with definitions. When I’m use the term “a VC firm” I’m talking about firms that have 6-10 partners, invest out of >$300m funds…
Raising A Seed Round Part 3: Targeting Specific Venture Capitalists And Angel Investors
March 22, 2021Part of preparing to raise is getting a really good sense of your key potential targets. For Niche Domains, Identify The VCs Who Have Made…
Raising A Seed Round Part 2: Deciding When You're Ready To Raise
March 22, 2021It can be difficult to know if you’re ready to raise when you’ve never raised before. Luckily, there are some good heuristics. Your…
Raising A Seed Round As A First Time Founder
March 21, 2021I often chat with first time founders who are raising their seed round. Fundraising is an interesting beast and it has many parts than are…
Playing games to leave games
October 21, 2014Levels of Abstraction in Django
July 01, 2014I’m currently building an forecasting tool using Django, which has led to some interesting explorations of the levels of abstractions Django…
Replaceability and the Economics of Disequilibrium
April 30, 2014Authors and Directors
March 15, 2014Einav and Levin on big data and econometrics
December 23, 2013A couple of economics professors at Stanford, Jonathan Levin and Liran Einav, have dived into the econ/big data intersection. Along with a…
Guest post over at Ribbonfarm
December 05, 2013In addition to this blog, I’m guest blogging over at Ribbonfarm; Venkat just published my first post, Algorithmic Governance and the Ghost…
Outsource your job search
October 11, 2013Breaking into programming, landing the minimum viable job (MVJ)
August 27, 2013Bridging Economics and Data Science
August 12, 2013As a Stanford undergraduate, I decided to major in economics because clever uses of data were always in the air. One of my professors hand…