I don’t think announcing a seed round to the press has ever been helpful.Here are my reasons:

Ironically, the VC world, having fuelled the creation of computing, is one of the last areas of business to introduce computing to decision-making... Evernote, Spotify, Etsy, Zynga, Palantir, Cloudera, OPOWER... The list featured not only names widely known to the public and leaders of industries, but also high performers such as Ibibo... Twenty p…

the model of traditional venture capital didn't work for the kind of projects that interested me. It works well for consumer tech, but it doesn't work as well if you want to do anything long term... began working with two others on fleshing out that model- which was a hybrid impact investment fund... The problem is a lack of valuable deal flow... …