I build things and organizations. Periodically, I ramble on about them here. See https://colopy.com for information about Colopy Ventures.
I build things and organizations. Periodically, I ramble on about them here. See https://colopy.com for information about Colopy Ventures.
In 1987, Ronald Reagan was President, the Cosby Show was the most popular television show, and Top Gun (the original one!) was still filling theaters. And I was a sophomore at Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio. Last spring, I was taken back to 1987 while sorting through an old box of high school mementos […]
The other week, Grace Ueng interviewed me for the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle. We had a great coffee conversation about all things me—growing up, my Harvard years, building Bronto, and beyond. Grace is a great interviewer, and I enjoyed it. Don’t take my word for it. Read her post (with never-seen-before pixs from […]
Last year, Karalyn and I gave an endowed gift to the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) to kick off an entrepreneurship program. The primary purpose of the gift was to hire a director to drive entrepreneurship education at the school. NCSSM was recently ranked the #1 public high school in North Carolina […]
Thursday, I sold my Telsa Model S. I bought it ten years ago, in the summer of 2013. I loved it for many years. It was cool, innovative, and fast. The service, at first, was awesome — white glove — was a big jump for me after having a Honda Civic for many years. But, […]
Welcome to 2023! With every new year, I reflect on the past year — what I liked and disliked and then ponder how I would like to change things for the upcoming year. Often, I find removing “noise” from my life is part of what changes. This lets me focus more on what matters and […]
At Colopy Ventures, we currently focus on two things — spreading the good word about tech startups with GrepBeat and investing in early growth stage software companies with Jurassic Capital. In 2023, we hope to expand our investing efforts by launching a pre-seed/seed fund to focus on the earliest-stage tech startups around the Triangle. It […]
Yesterday, Karalyn and I announced that we are giving $1.5 million to build a technology entrepreneurship program at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). Here is some news coverage that provides more detail about the gift: NCSSM: Entrepreneur donates $1.5 million to launch tech entrepreneurship program Triangle INNO: Entrepreneur donates $1.5M for new […]
The other week, I was interviewed by Trevor Schmidt for his podcast Founder Shares. Trevor is an attorney for Hutchison, a boutique entrepreneur-focused law firm based in the Raleigh-Durham area. This episode features the Bronto story, especially around its founding and acquisition. Also, it covers some new topics around Jurassic and GrepBeat, too. Give it […]
Recently, I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Aaron Dinin for his podcast, “Web Masters”. Aaron teaches Entrepreneurship at Duke University after spending many years as an English doctoral student and software entrepreneur. Now, he can tack podcaster onto his resume. I first met Aaron back in 2014 when he was deep in the […]
Early in the summer, my son and I started experimenting with a Raspberry Pi. Among other projects, I coded up JoeBotBot as my alter ego Twitter bot and, every day, automagically spout out morning motivations and grant a “Certificate of Awesomeness”. Ariana Grande won on Wednesday. Congratulations, Ariana. Please add this award to your LinkedIn […]
