I’ma relatively new entrepreneur. When I first started it took me a while to find quality readings on startups and entrepreneurship. It takes some time to understand what you actually need filter through tons of worthless stuff on the internet…
Recently I witnessed a few entrepreneur friends going through the painful process of raising. What was eye-opening is that I noticed that some of my friends complained about stuff like: “we wasted a lot of time trying to get an…
Eric Ries talks about vanity metrics and how dangerous they are in his great book “The Lean Startup”. Vanity metrics are when an entrepreneur or a startup created these shiny -but largely useless- achievements by a startup like getting an…
I have been following the Amazon share price closely for almost a year now. Amazon’s shares are a very interesting case. They have consistently traded at a very high TTM PE multiple (currently at 283.50 according to Yahoo Finance). Is…
I have noticed a recent trend among engineers and product guys; part-time work. In a few discussions I had at several New York startup and technology mixers I’ve heard engineers being excited about a startup then say: “I’m looking to…
Steve Blank wrote a very interesting article today in the Huffington Post about the impact of social media on driving away VC investments from other fields. You can read it here I believe he is spot-on but I also believe…
There are many tools the consumer can use to find out what products, services and merchants are out there e.g. Yelp. The consumer can also influence these products, services and merchants by reactive providing quality reviews. On the other end,…
I will try to have a monthly series with an article analyzing the strategy and competitive position of one of the hot tech companies/startups. So far I’m calling this series “Analyze This”. I decided to start with Twitter because I…
I am currently conducting a study with two of my colleagues in the Columbia MBA program and David Teten of ff venture capital. The focus of the study is defining how VCs can add value to their portfolio companies beyond…
I have noticed that many people are not familiar with the long-tail concept. This includes many savvy well educated people that I met, so I decided to write a post about it. It might seem basic knowledge for the techies…
