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 returned partial capital to investors in 2016.
For the past 18 months or so I’ve dedicate most of my time and capital to the blockchain ecosystem, running regular white paper reading groups, investing in early protocols and the coins that govern them, doing a lot of primary research and occasionally sketching out a new system. You can read more about how i’ve approached this endeavor here: https://jordancooper.blog/w-sq-crypto/. I’d like to build another venture capital firm sometime soon, likely with blockchain as part of the thesis.
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Email me here: jordan.cooper@gmail.com
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
Inspiring words. Thanks Abel
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