by Guimar Vaca Sittic Building marketplaces is really hard. The hardest nut to crack is building liquidity: having … Continue reading “Infrastructure for Marketplaces: The Shovels and Picks of the End-to-End Marketplace Gold Rush!”

As an entrepreneur and investor, I am fortunate enough to collaborate with startups on a regular basis, learning … Continue reading “One Step Closer To Streamlining the Car Buying and Selling Process”

Bahkan ketika saya masih kecil, saya tahu bahwa saya menginginkan seekor anjing, lebih disukai seekor Labrador. Saya ingat … Continue reading “Selamat tinggal Harvard!”

Freakonomics and Superfreaknomics – the bestselling books of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner are no longer news to … Continue reading “Think Like a Freak”

The used car industry is massive. There are 40 million used cars sold per year in the US … Continue reading “The used car buying and selling process is broken and we are going to fix it!”

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Emprendedor Universal … in Spanish! They asked me to relate … Continue reading “My first interview in Spanish!”

For the past year I have been the proud owner of a HTC One. As the new generation … Continue reading “Why I bought a Samsung Galaxy S5 instead of a HTC One M8”

Nicholas Carlson just published a fascinating in depth article about Larry Page. It covers his evolution over the … Continue reading “Larry Page’s story is fascinating”

It’s amazing how Wes Anderson can create a good story out of any material! The way he films … Continue reading “The Grand Budapest Hotel is fantastic!”

As you can see from my article on The Evolution of Marketplaces, Craigslist is facing a great unbundling. … Continue reading “Recommendations for Craigslist”

Anand Iyer, the Chief Product Officer of Threadflip, just wrote a thoughtful blog post on how to build … Continue reading “Fantastic article on how to build trust in modern marketplaces to achieve liquidity”

In the early days of the web Craigslist’s horizontal listing based marketplace was all things to all people … Continue reading “The Evolution of Marketplaces”

Bitcoin confuses people. They don’t grasp what it is and how it works. The two presentations below are … Continue reading “Great presentations on Bitcoin”

It’s hard to describe why, but somehow I find the sensation of gliding in untracked powder quasi-spiritual. For … Continue reading “There is something magical about skiing in powder!”

Andy Weir’s book gripped me from the start. I typically don’t like books written in the first person, … Continue reading “The Martian is Robinson Crusoe on Mars”