Archive for the 'Business Lifestyle' Category
Michael Arrington, editor of Tech Crunch, has spent some time this week eulogizing Edgeio, the company that took on Craigslist and burned through $5M in financing, only to shut down this past week. Edgeio shut down because investors no longer wanted to fund operations.
Arrington was an investor in the company. In his latest […]
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One of the best things about starting a company is that you become resilient and patient. I am one of the most impatient people I’ve ever come across (which begs the question, does one actually come across oneself? but I digress).
Last night I met some fellow entrepreneurs and I told them that when you manage […]
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Be careful what you ask for. A lot of people get into things for money, others for power, a few for respect.
Say you were an entrepreneur and someone came to you and:
- offered you $10M in funding but asked that you had to stay on for 3 years as a condition. Three years […]
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The NY Times has a fascinating piece on Silicon Valley in general and Slide.com’s Max Levchin (formerly of Paypal) in particular. It also quotes other successful entrepreneurs, such as
- Peter A. Thiel, Levchin’s partner at PayPal who now runs hedge fund called Clarium Capital and as one of Facebook’s first investors is sitting one […]
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Apparently, traditional media’s love and hate relationship with YouTube took an interesting turn tonight: NBC canceled its channel on YouTube.
I won’t comment on that directly since WatchMojo.com is a content provider on YouTube and enough people are already commenting on the unconfirmed news, but I’ve been meaning to look at the interesting dynamic between traditional […]
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I think it’s time for me to dust off my personal site and add a blog there: a place where I can share topics that probably don’t have a place on this blog which is increasingly read by people that “probably” don’t care about my personal life.
But, of all of the blogs in the Blogger […]
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One of the more frequent comments I get is “How do you get time to do so much research, write about it and also run a business?”
I am quite proud of the fact that in the past 18 months, I’ve managed a team that has produced 4,000 video clips and published 2,500 of […]
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When iLike launched a Facebook application, the social network’s burgeoning traffic crushed the music service’s servers. Subsequently, iLike’s company founder (and my fellow countryman) Ali Partovi made an empassioned plea for servers, servers, and more servers.It was a tough constraint to meet demand for, for sure, but ultimately, in today’s climate […]
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Read Write Web has an overview of bootstrapping a company.
Ultimately, bootstrapping means that you have to create an asset that over time will hold value while keeping your cost down in the short term. This is a trade-off that all entrepreneurs need to overcome. Michael Moritz, one of the more successful VCs of […]
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When I was studying finance, I read a book that outlined Warren Buffett’s 12 tenets of investing.
- Background and Context
To this day, I always think of Warren Buffett when I make an investment. In 2003, I tried to get him to buy the Montreal Expos and keep them in Montreal. Suffice to say, […]
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