The Best Thing I’ve Read in 5 Years

I’ve read a lot on investing and startups since I started about 5 years ago. Along with Fooled by Randomness, this is my favorite piece that I’ve read on business and putting things in perspective: The Trap of Marginal Thinking by Clayton Christenson. Some excerpts: The language of the disruptive attackers was completely different: “It’s …

Fit and Finish

Originally written on 1.3.12 I wrote earlier about how we observed virtually unprecedented exponential growth from companies in the past few years and how some start-ups in the consumer world leveraged the concept of the ‘atomic unit’ or ‘trivial gesture’ to achieve this growth. We also observed another common characteristic or trend in apps/services that …

Getting Older

Originally written on 3/29/12. Source: gevisacri.blogspot.com.br via David on Pinterest I came across this great quote on Pinterest and it really struck a nerve with me. When I was 25, I had Hodgkin’s Disease, a form of lymphoma (or the “Good Hodgkin’s”, as Larry David once said). It has an unusually high cure rate but …