Everything was so much simpler before the Internet. Back then, the VC world was neatly divided into IT and Health...

Credit, private or public, is of greatest consequence to every country. Of this, it might be called the invigorating principle. -Alexander...

Not much more than 100 years ago, the ice industry was a major component of the US industrial economy, contributing...

Growing up, I wasn’t popular in the conventional sense (and by the conventional sense I mean having friends and such)....

Prepaid cards offer a significant opportunity to broaden product lines and modernize customer‐facing applications without massive changes to core processing...

Yeah, I’ve done it … this blog basically consists of a slideshow.  Obviously we know what comes next: Listicle 24...

I’d like to think that the vast majority of the investments we make are in companies whose products and services...

I’ve spent the better part of my career investing in technology companies involved in financial services.  Given that, it’s a...

The most important development in merchant payments right now isn’t happening in Silicon Valley (though I do think PayPal is...

Perhaps I’m just simpleminded, but one of the most important things I look for in a company is the ability...