A historical collection of our writing.
I have always loved the videos illustrating orders of magnitude of scale. It simply seems a marvel that the world around us encompasses all these different scales. It turns out to also be a useful way to think about ability when you are recruiting. Talent comes in orders of magnitude. Before going […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
While I have a feeling that Larry Page won’t take any of my suggestions (darn), I am happy to see him come out swinging hard. What a welcome contrast to when Jerry Yang took over as CEO at Yahoo. Several people have written that it is a bad idea to have a corporate wide bonus […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Tech’s history is somewhat reminiscent of the city of Troy, which when it was discovered was found to have many layers with newer ones built on top of the old ones. In tech as new layers get built the old layers are abstracted away which results in those old layers becoming commoditized. Because […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
STP stands for Straight Through Processing and is a term that comes from the financial services industry. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThis is my final MBA Mondays post on M&A Issues. I've been posting about M&A since last December. It feels like a semester long effort. And frankly I'm a bit tired of talking about M&A every monday. But selling your company is an important topic and I think we've done it justice now on MBA […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
In case you missed it, email services provider Epsilon had a massive security breach and a large number of email lists were exposed, including those of several large banks such as JP Morgan Chase and Citi. This is likely to result in more targeted phishing campaigns as it is now in the open who is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
