About

I started this blog in 2009 from the depths of my first startup. I used it as a medium to organize my thoughts and experience. It became a platform to amplify my voice, recruit, share market insights, share experiences, find community, find support, etc….That was years ago. Since then I built Hyperpublic, teamed up w Kenny and Ben as to start Lerer Ventures, where I was a General Partner for the first 6 years, sold Hyperpublic to Groupon (GRPN), invested in almost 250 companies, started a company called Wildcard, built it into one of Apple’s Best Apps of 2015, and then recently returned partial capital to investors. It’s now 2017 and for the first time since leaving General Catalyst in 2008, I’m going to stop starting and running companies while investing, and focus entirely on being a venture capitalist. Let’s see how it goes 🙂

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Impact is key. A century ago Teddy R. had a few words to say on the same topic:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

the full speech can be found at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/research/speech%20arena.htm

abel
January 12, 2010