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Liquidation Analysis (Continued)
Fred Wilson – Oct 10, 2011
Last week I pointed out that when your company is sold at price points around or below prices where you have financed your company then your proceeds in a sale transaction will not equal your fully diluted ownership percentage times [...] Read more
Innovation: Perez vs Thiel (Optimism vs Pessimism)
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2011
Tomorrow I will be attending an “Innovation Summit” hosted by the Darden School of Business. I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s “The End of the Future” in the National Review. Thiel’s argument is that underlying our economic difficulties is a [...] Read more
Analyst hiring update
Christina Cacioppo – Oct 7, 2011
A reminder we're closing applications for the investment analyst position at 6pm Eastern time Thursday, Oct. 13. After applications close, we'll review each one before beginning to reach out and schedule meetings. We will respond to all who apply.We're asking [...] Read more
Steve Jobs
Albert Wenger – Oct 6, 2011
It feels a bit strange now that I wrote a post yesterday morning about “Apple’s Glory Years,” not realizing that in the evening I would see the news that Steve Jobs had passed away. There have been many excellent tributes [...] Read more
Announcing Tech Tuesdays
Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2011
Fred’s MBA Mondays series has been really terrific and has inspired me to start a Tech Tuesdays series, which will launch next Tuesday. The subtitle for Tech Tuesdays could be: Everything you always wanted to know about computers but were [...] Read more
Needed: The Opposing View Reader
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2011
I have tried out quite a few social news readers and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will already have seen most of the stories that they present in [...] Read more