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Joining the team at K2
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be joining the team at K2 Media Labs on a full-time basis in the coming weeks. K2 is an early stage private equity fund that invests in startups focused on the connected consumer. The Company is a bit of a hybrid, in that it makes early-stage investments and also…
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Learning Processing….and So Much More
When you finish up at Stern you’re allowed to take a ‘free’ class (I hesitate to say it’s free because you’ve already made a tremendous investment in the MBA, but you don’t pay specifically for the credits to one class). I took advantage of our ability to go outside of Stern and I signed up…
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Connecting the Dots
A couple weeks ago when Steve Jobs announced his retirement, I did a little research to try to sum up my takeaways from his success. One of his stories was about taking a calligraphy class in college, and how that class gave him enough knowledge in the subject to create font sets in the first Apple…
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Using Narratives
Having worked in both business development and production, I feel like I’ve learned a lot about people. The importance of people in every job function can’t be over stated. It doesn’t really matter if you’re selling enterprise software, building a product or making a trade, you need to think about the person on the other…
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Five Things I Learned From Steve Jobs
On the heels of Steve Jobs’ announcement that he’s retiring from Apple (okay, I’m a little late for the heels, but there was a pseudo-hurricane), I thought I’d reflect on the top five things I take from the single greatest entrepreneur in the history of consumer technology. 1. Know Your Customer: When you start a…
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Building A Thesis
Investing in startups is a phenomenally risky business. True, when compared to the current machine-driven equities market the asset class may not seem as crazy as it did last Thursday, but it’s risky nonetheless. At the early stage there are very few corporate finance tools that will work for potential investments, which is why the…
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Five Reasons VCs Say No (aka “Team, Market, Idea”)
As my Summer at Softbank winds to a close, I thought I take an opportunity to relay a few insights that I will take with me from my time with the incredible team up in Newton. I started out learning about investing from Jerry Neumann, who at the time was a professional angel, before he…
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Hi, my name is Christian. 