Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I am a reader of Tom Tonguz’s blog (Tom is a venture capitalist at Redpoint Ventures). Although I’ve mentioned the Kelly Criterion before, it’s worth reading Tom’s post from earlier this year (Feb. 2021) where important investment attributes are discussed. “First, to calculate the expected value of an investment don’t …
Today I invite you to read this post by Courtney Rubin, How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight, The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down. There are a lot a cautionary red flags for you VCs and investors, and as …
While I’m at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in S.F. I don’t forget my techies readers who are not attending. 60%+ of this blog’s readership are people that work in technology: engineers, product developers, editors, etc. I thought it would be useful to link to Y Combinator’s top alumni company list of …
“[You] can’t top this” is a line I used to attain an advantage in countless negotiations. I’d set out my agenda, escalating point-by-point. You can’t top this. I let it set so they have the last word. Sometimes I throw my counter-parties a bone [no sweetener] to see if they …
