One thing my C2 Ventures partner and I always enjoy as a side benefit to sifting through our weekly pile of new deal flow is the names of companies. Many are fairly straightforward, some quite clever, some confusing, and others completely off the rails, but we love them all (especially…

Below is the transcript of my recent interview with Lucas Takahashi, founder of our (C2 Ventures) portfolio company, Medmo. I hit an unexpected gold mine with one of the questions, but you’ll have to read on to see what I mean. Hope you enjoy it! [00:00:00] Matt: Welcome back to…

To paraphrase Mark Twain (sort of), reports of the death of brick-and-mortar retail are greatly exaggerated. Ever since Amazon first showed us the advantages of buying books online, ecommerce has taken the retail world by storm, but as this new market has grown and evolved, its disadvantages have come into…

One thing my C2 Ventures partner and I always enjoy as a side benefit to sifting through our weekly pile of new deal flow is the names of companies. Many are fairly straightforward, some quite clever, some confusing, and others completely off the rails, but we love them all (especially…

In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste, I thought I would share some of the broad lessons I hope we take away from our first direct experience with a full-scale pandemic in more than a century. I’m going to make a concerted effort to avoid anything…

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the dangers of the second-order effects of fear and panic in the face of global uncertainty, I wanted to further comment on why times like the present have historically been the moments not to follow the herd and sell everything, nor to…

Somewhere near the bottom of a COVID-19 content rabbit hole the other day, I found myself thinking about Franklin Roosevelt and his famous quote (from his first inaugural address in 1933) about the grip in which the Great Depression held the country: “Let me assert my firm belief that the…

Even though I’m a relative newcomer to the venture capital space, with two decades of experience as a banker, hedge fund manager and CFO, it’s not often that I find myself shocked by anything I read in the startup-focused press or hear in meetings; however, a few weeks back as…