Real estate agents, insurance brokers, travel agents, and more will soon be replaced by online marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers to: 1. distribution channels and 2. access to information. While earlier companies like eBay, and Amazon took generalist views — letting consumers buy and sell everything, the broker was allowed to exist. Brokers brought […]

A long time ago, Amanda Palmer did an incredible TED talk on the “Art of Asking.” The whole time I thought about how relevant her experience in music has been to my career in startups. In her talk, Amanda spoke of how she often asks fans for money—and how another artist she had met refused […]