How’s Your Story Going to Fail?
Why the Story Failed at Valeant and Theranos We’re hard wired to believe well-told tales. Bloomberg, November 2, 2015, ...
Guy Kawasaki: 12 Startup Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Me
12 Startup Lessons from Steve Jobs Taught Guy Kawasaki 1. ‘Experts’ are clueless 2. Customers cannot tell you what they need 3....
MiB: Art Samberg of Pequot Partners
This week in our Masters in Business interview, we speak with with Art Samberg of Pequot Capital. When Art Samberg began his...
The University Endowment Sweet Sixteen Bracket
Via Chief Investment Officer, we see this amusing comparison of major university endowments. I am not sure how the winners are...
Andreessen Horowitz: U.S. Technology Funding
What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital? “This...
The Sharing Economy
Bloomberg Briefs: Nowadays, it’s hard to find more exuberant sharing-economy enthusiasts than investors. Uber, the ride-hailing...
Learning From Failure: Performing an Autopsy on Dead Start Ups
Postmortems for Startup Failures A new website autopsies the flops. Bloomberg, June 10, 2015 There has been relentless...
The Startup Generator
I have been having some fun with The Startup Generator. Click for a few random start ups: The Startup...
Reform of NYC Pension May Follow CALPER’s Script
People seem to be genuinely shocked by a new report out of New York City’s Comptrollers Office. The report found that the city’s...