A historical collection of our writing.
Susan and I saw Margin Call on Saturday night. The movie has a great cast, including Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey and one of my personal favorites, Paul Bettany. My theory is that the more you know about finance, the more you will have trouble enjoying this movie. That’s because Margin Call gets some […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am about to get on a plane to fly up to Syracuse for Startup Weekend. Really looking forward to meeting the participants. It is awesome to have many more people exploring startups as an alternative to working at some existing company! Was also pleased to see Twilio as a sponsor – after all, the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
My friend Mike White told me the other day that he uses the photo sharing service Instagram because it makes him happy. That stuck in my head.So I remembered that the mission statement for the Cheezburger Network is “5 minutes of happiness each day” and I was thinking about that statement and how […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
The European Union (EU) has been a work in progress for many years. Since its inception there has been tremendous tension between what can be decided at the EU level and what is decided by the individual countries. Despite an expensive European Parliament the vast majority of the power is held by […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In “Of Bits and Bytes” we learned that all kinds of data such as numbers, text, graphics and much more can be represented as sequences of bits. Then last week we saw that instructions for the CPU are also simply sequences of bits. Now going back to the Overview, memory is the place where computers […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast week on MBA Mondays I posted about the difference between CFO and VP Finance. In the comments to that post, I was asked about VP Eng vs CTO and I figured that had the makings of a good post too. So here we go. Like VP Finance & CFO, the differences in the two […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
