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If You Build It They Will Share — Or Not

I like the idea of Quartz, the new business magazine from the Atlantic Group, but I’m not convinced they have a plan in place to reach the people they need to reach. Maybe they do, but I haven’t heard about … Continue reading

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More Evidence of Maturing Private Equity Markets

Entrepreneur, investor, and “data guy” Mike Greenfield has a nice post on how AngelList quantitatively changes the investing game, which lines up nicely with a few of the points I was trying to make in my recent post on whether … Continue reading

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Will the Public Company Soon be a Thing of the Past?

The public company — at least in its current form — may be on the wane, according to economist Nancy Folbre. Folbre, who specializes in the interesting-sounding discipline of the economics of care, argues in The New York Times that … Continue reading

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Y Combinator Over-Inflates Startup Valuations? Don’t Think So

I can’t subscribe to the view — put forth in a recent Business Insider piece on startup valuations — that the Y Combinator program is driving startup valuations higher across the board. And in fact, the article strikes me as … Continue reading

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Startup Advisors: Defining Success

A young entrepreneur I met recently asked me how to think about advisory boards and I ended up writing him a long email, which forms the basis of this post. The biggest value-add I can impart here is a piece … Continue reading

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