Writing

Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? I've been getting asked that question for at least four years now. It's hard to sustain a bubble for four years. But we are [...]  Read more

I chromecasted the kitchen laptop to our family room TV yesterday morning and watched the entire Sarah Lacy interview with Dick Costolo. Yes, I had posted it as the video of the week without watching it in its entirety. But [...]  Read more

If a Company is making huge profits this year but will not make any profits in the future, it is worthless in the eyes of an investor. But if it loses money this year and next year and may lose [...]  Read more

I am a big fan of exit interviews. I have learned more doing exit interviews than most other management techniques. When people are on their way out and have no fear of saying exactly what they think, you can learn [...]  Read more

Phil Sugar left a great comment on last week's MBA Mondays about Turning Your Team: Do not think that the reason you aren't scaling is because you need to bring in outside management. That will kill a team.  This is [...]  Read more

This has been a theme of mine since Roelof Botha put it in my head a few years ago. He said that entrepreneurs should approach building a company with the same passion that they have for building a product. I've [...]  Read more

A serial entrepreneur I know tells me "you will turn your team three times on the way from startup to a business of scale." What he means is that the initial team will depart, replaced by another team, which in [...]  Read more

I finally picked up the Isaacson book on Steve Jobs. Figured enough time has passed to give the proper amount of perspective. It must be a big book because I've spent the past two weekends on it and I am [...]  Read more

For the past few years, I've been using a third party service called Pandamian to power a table of contents for MBA Mondays. They've been awesome to work with but the honest truth is I would prefer to have this [...]  Read more