January 2012
10 posts
Jim Simons: Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck
1. Do something new - don’t run with the pack
2. Collaborate with the best people you can - it’s fun!
3. Be guided by beauty and do it right
4. Don’t give up
5. Hope for some good luck
But the studios themselves are likely to do better in a direct distribution...
– A VC
America at Work - The Atlantic →
i think programming is finally being seen as it should be - as the literacy of...
– Zach Sims
A VC: Some Thoughts On The Success Of Code Year
(via fred-wilson)
December 2011
11 posts
Top five Regrets of The Dying →
November 2011
17 posts
The Golden Age of Internet Marketing? →
Founder Stories - Mike Bloomberg
In an investment world filled with machines trading with other machines the long...
– Long run investing | Abnormal Returns
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You... →
bijan:
Levy: Two years ago, you bought Zappos. Was that an attempt to absorb their so-called culture of happiness and customer service?
Bezos: No, no, no. We like their unique culture, but we don’t want that culture at Amazon. We like our culture, too. Our version of a perfect customer experience is one in which our customer doesn’t want to talk to us. Every time a customer contacts us, we see...
K5 - A Mastermind Interview with Clayton... →
We Have Only Scratched the Surface of the True... →
Mark Suster’s blog
October 2011
21 posts
There are a few prerequisites to inventing … You have to be willing to...
– Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth - Rob Wheeler - Harvard Business Review
Charlie Rose - Ray Dalio →
Information Arbitrage: Over the next few years I... →
informationarbitrage:
…the public markets will become increasingly unfriendly, putting even more pressure on private capital to bridge the gap;
…Series A capital will be harder to come by, as life-cycle firms with reserves focus their energies on internal rounds for high-potential portfolio companies while Micro VCs…
Continuations: The B Corporation →
continuations:
I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common form of organization is the C Corporation which has as…