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Buy vs. rent vs. build.
Tech companies are often thinking Buy vs. Build. Everyone is. You are a company. You have capabilities. You make stuff. You could make anything. Should you make your own salesforce automation/customer relation management platform? It’s just software… Buy it or
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Buy vs. rent vs. build.
Tech companies are often thinking Buy vs. Build. Everyone is. You are a company. You have capabilities. You make stuff. You could make anything. Should you make your own salesforce automation/customer relation management platform? It’s just software… Buy it or
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Vacuum innovators, suck vs drive
You are reinventing a category. Better to make the vacuum suck harder or make it drive itself? http://fortune.com/2017/09/09/james-dyson-vacuum/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=term-sheet&utm_content=2017091113pm
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Vacuum innovators, suck vs drive
You are reinventing a category. Better to make the vacuum suck harder or make it drive itself? http://fortune.com/2017/09/09/james-dyson-vacuum/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=term-sheet&utm_content=2017091113pm
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The first thing I ever ordered on Amazon
Three philosophy books, the first week I got to graduate school at Stanford.
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The first thing I ever ordered on Amazon
Three philosophy books, the first week I got to graduate school at Stanford.
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Media diet, Currently
NYT Twitter NPR Newsletters: Ben Evans, Axios Dan Primack, Fortune Term Sheet, Bloomberg Tech PBS NewsHour Shields and Brooks on Fridays Marketplace Morning Report What am I missing?
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Media diet, Currently
NYT Twitter NPR Newsletters: Ben Evans, Axios Dan Primack, Fortune Term Sheet, Bloomberg Tech PBS NewsHour Shields and Brooks on Fridays Marketplace Morning Report What am I missing?
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Best-of from this blog, since 2001.
I’ve been writing here for quite some time, and since 2008 a lot about startups. A colleague curated a selection of 50 posts that are the best-of from this writing. Have a read of my Beginner’s Guide.
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Best-of from this blog, since 2001.
I’ve been writing here for quite some time, and since 2008 a lot about startups. A colleague curated a selection of 50 posts that are the best-of from this writing. Have a read of my Beginner’s Guide.
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Leadership lessons from Sheryl Sandberg
Tldr from this good hour piece: 1. Via Dave Goldberg she says “In a partnership, trust the shared process” rather than hoping to hammer our agreement on all key issues up front and then rely on then as permanent bedrock.
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Leadership lessons from Sheryl Sandberg
Tldr from this good hour piece: 1. Via Dave Goldberg she says “In a partnership, trust the shared process” rather than hoping to hammer our agreement on all key issues up front and then rely on then as permanent bedrock.
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Bloomberg Tech TV, talking Knotel
Full Show: Bloomberg Technology (08/29) Guests include: Asia Society’s Lindsey Ford, Blockchain Capital’s Spencer Bogart, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and Knotel CEO Amol Sarva. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg Tech TV, talking Knotel
Full Show: Bloomberg Technology (08/29) Guests include: Asia Society’s Lindsey Ford, Blockchain Capital’s Spencer Bogart, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and Knotel CEO Amol Sarva. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Amol F2F: my new video interview series.
First three episodes are in the can, produced, and viewable on Youtube. Amol F2F with Edward Shenderovich, the first and lead investor in DeliveryHero from Series A through IPO. Amol F2F at Kinnernet and H-Farm with Mel Rosenberg, the co-founder
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Amol F2F: my new video interview series.
First three episodes are in the can, produced, and viewable on Youtube. Amol F2F with Edward Shenderovich, the first and lead investor in DeliveryHero from Series A through IPO. Amol F2F at Kinnernet and H-Farm with Mel Rosenberg, the co-founder
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Snippets from Drucker.
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES for the 21st Century Drucker, Peter F. Citation (MLA): Drucker, Peter F.. MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES for the 21st Century. HarperCollins, 2009. Kindle file. 1 Management’s New Paradigms Bookmark – Page 14 · Location 221 2 Strategy — The New
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Snippets from Drucker.
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES for the 21st Century Drucker, Peter F. Citation (MLA): Drucker, Peter F.. MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES for the 21st Century. HarperCollins, 2009. Kindle file. 1 Management’s New Paradigms Bookmark – Page 14 · Location 221 2 Strategy — The New
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Friendship, according to Seneca’s Letter 48
I’m restarting my series of posts about Seneca’s letters to a young friend. I did maybe 13 a while back but there are 100 more. So here we go: In this one he is hassling the young fellow Lucilius for
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Friendship, according to Seneca’s Letter 48
I’m restarting my series of posts about Seneca’s letters to a young friend. I did maybe 13 a while back but there are 100 more. So here we go: In this one he is hassling the young fellow Lucilius for
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