Six Ps of Venture Investing, hat tip to Morgan Polatan

We had the very thoughtful and insightful investor from Bloomberg Beta visit our Knotel Venture School class on Thursday May 11. Morgan told us how he evaluates venture investments, roughly, using his very nice checklist. Presenting… Morgan’s six P framework.

Six Ps of Venture Investing, hat tip to Morgan Polatan

We had the very thoughtful and insightful investor from Bloomberg Beta visit our Knotel Venture School class on Thursday May 11. Morgan told us how he evaluates venture investments, roughly, using his very nice checklist. Presenting… Morgan’s six P framework.

Book pitch– In Search of Lost Time: Lifehacks

In an age of non-stop productivity podcasts and to-do how-tos, let the ancients and the canonized teach you: – how to live – Boethius – being lucky – Pascal – time management – Proust – your goals – Melville –

Book pitch– In Search of Lost Time: Lifehacks

In an age of non-stop productivity podcasts and to-do how-tos, let the ancients and the canonized teach you: – how to live – Boethius – being lucky – Pascal – time management – Proust – your goals – Melville –

Work Awesome Deutschland

WorkAwesome.de is happening — November 30th this year in Berlin. http://workawesome.de/ I will be there. Hope you will be too.  

Work Awesome Deutschland

WorkAwesome.de is happening — November 30th this year in Berlin. http://workawesome.de/ I will be there. Hope you will be too.  

Lessons from Bossypants, about dealing with Creative People.

Tina Fey had a few great bits in a New Yorker piece and her book about ‘management lessons from SNL’ (from Lorne Michaels). Hiring Hire people you want to be around (fit) Mix nerds and street fighters (e.g., mix Harvard

Lessons from Bossypants, about dealing with Creative People.

Tina Fey had a few great bits in a New Yorker piece and her book about ‘management lessons from SNL’ (from Lorne Michaels). Hiring Hire people you want to be around (fit) Mix nerds and street fighters (e.g., mix Harvard

Venture fund macro thesis idea: PDF

Strategy: buy email panel data. Sort company names that send PDFs. Back companies that replace those companies with SaaS.

Venture fund macro thesis idea: PDF

Strategy: buy email panel data. Sort company names that send PDFs. Back companies that replace those companies with SaaS.

Berkshire annual meeting 2017 in Omaha.

Buffet and Munger took the stage and answered questions all day. Some topics: Automated driving: Will hurt Geico. Will compete with train lines. Will happen. We shall see how fast. Sees Candy, we shaped our strategy. Bought for $25mm and

Berkshire annual meeting 2017 in Omaha.

Buffet and Munger took the stage and answered questions all day. Some topics: Automated driving: Will hurt Geico. Will compete with train lines. Will happen. We shall see how fast. Sees Candy, we shaped our strategy. Bought for $25mm and

Tl;dr on Sales and Selling from A16.

Selling to an enterprise is like passing a law through Congress. The default is companies reject all products. Coin-operated idiots — the Silicon Valley nonsense of sales forces (Dalgaard). They are your frontline with customers. Sales reps have a NOW

Tl;dr on Sales and Selling from A16.

Selling to an enterprise is like passing a law through Congress. The default is companies reject all products. Coin-operated idiots — the Silicon Valley nonsense of sales forces (Dalgaard). They are your frontline with customers. Sales reps have a NOW

Tl;dr of Audition, by Shurtleff

The musty paperback classic, Audition, which tells actors how to act so they can get parts. Still read now, by actors studying the business. Ostensibly it’s a practical book about how to get the audition. And I picked it up

Tl;dr of Audition, by Shurtleff

The musty paperback classic, Audition, which tells actors how to act so they can get parts. Still read now, by actors studying the business. Ostensibly it’s a practical book about how to get the audition. And I picked it up

Natural Light and Artificial Light

People are getting worried about Artificial Intelligence. But Artificial Light has yet to make much progress replacing Natural Light. Expands the market, certainly.

Natural Light and Artificial Light

People are getting worried about Artificial Intelligence. But Artificial Light has yet to make much progress replacing Natural Light. Expands the market, certainly.

Announcing: Amol’s Startup School, 2017 Summer Edition.

You may know that I have been working with entrepreneurs and founders for years now, and the last two years I got really serious about it. I’m launching my startup school: Knotel Venture School, with classes beginning May 4th 2017, Thursday from

Announcing: Amol’s Startup School, 2017 Summer Edition.

You may know that I have been working with entrepreneurs and founders for years now, and the last two years I got really serious about it. I’m launching my startup school: Knotel Venture School, with classes beginning May 4th 2017, Thursday from