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06 Dec 09

Food for Flight

  • are at best a breakeven proposition financially
  • Hughes believes airlines today are focusing not just on ancillary revenue but on "improving the value proposition" for customers.
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14 Nov 09

How to Change the World: The Venture Capital Aptitude Test (VCAT)

  • My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. You should not sit in board meetings listening to an entrepreneur explaining why she missed her numbers while you read email on a Blackberry and intermittently spew forth gems like, “You should partner with MySpace; I can also introduce you to a few of the losers in our portfolio.”
  • My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. You should not sit in board meetings listening to an entrepreneur explaining why she missed her numbers while you read email on a Blackberry and intermittently spew forth gems like, “You should partner with MySpace; I can also introduce you to a few of the losers in our portfolio.”
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02 Nov 09

Thematic vs Thesis Driven Investing

  • I believe thesis driven investing produces the best returns when the thesis is
    directionally correct and probably also the worst returns when the thesis is
    wrong. I believe thematic investing works less well because it can lead to
    "bucket filling" where the firm just runs around filling the themes with deals
    without much thought to why and how they will work. It also leads to a lot of
    "me too" investing which is a scourge that the venture industry can't seem to
    figure out how to rid itself of.
  • they both promote domain expertise which is critical to building a sustainable
    investment advantage
22 Aug 09

Investors Eye Top Start-ups as I.P.O. Market Awakens - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

  • Venture capitalists’ rule of thumb is that a company must have $100 million in sales and have a capitalization around $1 billion to do an I.P.O., in order to have enough money to meet the reporting structures of the Sarbanes-Oxley law.

Startups: 10 Things MBA Schools Won't Teach You

  • Every time you add a new product or product option a small part of your company
    dies.
14 Jun 09

Google's Grab for the Display Ad Market - BusinessWeek

  • The exchange is part of Google's overriding goal to make display ads, which can be expensive to create and complex to manage, so easy that even the smallest businesses can use them.
31 May 09

Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise. - NYTimes.com

  • Quentin George, the interim chief executive of Cadreon and the chief digital officer of Mediabrands, says Cadreon instead would base its strategy on the audience, not the medium.

Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise. - NYTimes.com

  • “It forces marketers to stay on their toes and think of thousands of small great ideas instead of one great big one."
26 May 09

Don't You Dare Email This Story - WSJ.com

  • "Organize your day into blocks of time that are quiet, focused work, where you're not checking email," she says. Otherwise, "your job is just a reaction job and there's no time for the proactive."
25 Apr 09

What Venture Capital Can Learn from Private Equity - BusinessWeek

  • Today's VCs have to pick great markets, great teams, and manage execution risk, as they always did. But they also have to manage valuation risk, timing risk, and investor syndicate risk.
  • Private equity is focused on metrics, comparables, terms, and cost of capital—more so than innovation, market selection, and team development. Their teams and companies are more mature, reducing the need to be an expert in assessing execution risk.
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