A historical collection of our writing.
Fred has been posting a wonderful series of MBA Mondays posts that I recommend to everyone who wants to know more about the business side of startups. If you come from the engineering side, it may also help to think about business using engineering principles. My favorite one is the idea of a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So I am finally midstream in migrating off Exchange and onto Google. Email – check (gmail). Contacts – check (google contacts). Calendar – check (gcal). Notes – what no Google notes? Huh? I may be overlooking something obvious here, but it doesn’t seem as if Google has a direct equivalent of notes. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe are going to turn our attention on MBA Mondays to some costs that are important to recognize in business. First up is Opportunity Cost. Opportunity Cost is the cost of not being able to do something because you are doing something else. These costs don’t end up on your income statement but they […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
A quality that I find hugely important but increasingly rare in people is the willingness to admit mistakes. Growing up I wasn’t really part of a culture in which mistakes are openly discussed and used as an opportunity to learn. For a long time, my own approach was therefore one of just moving on […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday evening I wanted to bone up on the racing rules in sailing after having had a close encounter while rounding the leward mark last Thursday (which elicited quite a blue streak from the skipper of the other boat). I really wanted to see some animations of different situations that one might […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As in the past 8 years, we went to see the Scarsdale Memorial Day parade earlier this year. Attendance was incredibly low. I remarked to Susan then that this is a direct function of virtually no one in Scarsdale having a family member in the military. As far as I can tell, we have essentially […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
