In a unique way, moment-of-inception investors dwell in the future. Here are some of the misty futures we see when we look forward.

"My experience of parenting six kids has had a deep impact on me as an entrepreneur and investor. Lessons from fatherhood, applied to funding startups."

"I've come to reflect that my rich experience of parenting has had a deep, and positive, impact on me as an entrepreneur and investor."

Valuations have been rising for all kinds of venture rounds for years. The rise has been most severe in B rounds and after, as today's unicorn frenzy begins to take hold.

Given that we see hundreds of start-ups each month, the Social Starts team has a unique perspective on trends among founders of new companies in social/mobile. Here are some of the trends among early stage entrepreneurs we have seen so far this year:

We are delighted to have exactly zero companies on the CB Insights 135 startups that failed list. And, we feel gratified to see many companies on this list we looked at and passed on.

Every six months Social Starts examines the social/mobile landscape to see what has changed, so we can adjust our investment approach to the current and emerging reality.

As CB Insights notes, with many VCs moving back to bigger early-stage rounds, later in the lives of start-ups, the first under-$1M round is becoming a unique investment opportunity.

For thousands of years work has been synonymous with value in society. If you worked, you mattered. If you didn't, you were, literally a bum

To keep our growth trajectory high as well as add more top advisors who can help our portfolio companies, we have grown the team.

This explosion of connected devices will shatter the way the worldwide network and the software that operates it work.

As investors focused primarily on moment-of-inception investing, we have to recognize that size isn't what matters.

Today's Social Construct is the product of the emergence and near ubiquity of social and mobile technologies.

The question: Who says advertising will have, or even deserves, a future?

Historic shifts in business fundamentals don’t occur smoothly; rather they happen in sudden, sharp shifts.

Given the frenzy of interest following the announcement of the Apple Watch, you might think wearables will be the next really important shift in tech. Not so.