Semil Shah Blog – Building a community around technology

Love it or hate it, the stock market is the sentiment machine for the United States. It is our nation’s Fitbit, Apple Watch, mood ring, tarot card, and more for getting a pulse of our economy today and a glimpse into what shareholders believe the future...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been talking to 2-4 close investor friends/mentors per day. Often, it’s just to go out for a walk, or we talk about a company or two we are both investors in, or we trade notes on household management tips, or inside information...

Everyone is doing their own version of “triage” right now. Let me state upfront – I recognize using medical terminology to discuss non-medical emergencies during a public health crisis is not ideal. To be clear, it is not my intention to equivocate the...

This is a post for startup founders to hopefully better understand how investors and VC firms are adjusting to this new world. There are lots of tweets floating around citing “business as usual” and “we are open for business” — and while those proclamations...