A historical collection of our writing.
My friend Anthony recently wrote about a six step process he uses to determine whether a new idea he finds out about, or a new company someone is starting, or a new product being released, is interesting to him.He emailed and asked me how new ideas catch my attention. For me, it’s not a methodical […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
“The fitness function of a venture capitalist — meaning the metrics of performance, the report card — is pretty pure. You show up with money, and one way or another more money has to come back than goes in.” Bing GordonOftentimes it’s best to reduce things to the base elements, in order to really […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
The folks at the Tribeca Film festival were kind (or silly) enough to ask me to write something for their Future of Film blog.Which I did – entitled “The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get.” I’d been thinking alot about how users are getting content, how they are experiencing it. It seems that in […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Lou Reed wrote this line (my favorite lyric ever) in the context of relationships (I think). But it’s much more applicable than that.Ideas for new businesses are amazing, wonderful, creative things. What makes ideas so interesting is that they are unbounded by limits – they operate solely in the […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Tim Devane – who we luckily hired last year – wrote an essay about how he, a kid right out of college with little work experience, landed a job. Tim is a wonderful writer, but his top line tips are so insightful. I am summarizing below, but please read the whole thing:1) Get Up, Shower2) […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
The title of this online space is “Maximizing the serendipity around you” which comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, and is as much of a universal business rule I’ve ever heard and followed.To me it means that you have to increase the chances of something random happening to you, you […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
