Nov
13
Michael Porter is Bankrupt AND the Framework of a Blindfolded Chimpanzee.
This post is dedicated to a good friend of mine and a loyal reader, Diego del Rio Diaz-Jara, who found a programming bug in my blog. ...
Oct
19
Top Impressively Large Deals of 2012
I recently put together a list of the largest Venture Capital deals thus far in 2012 based on Thomson Reuters. Although Software dominated ...
Oct
15
Lowering the bar… Kixeye recruiting video is *@$# funny
Today, I stumbled upon a ridiculously funny video by San Francisco-based hardcore social games company, Kixeye.
In a video laced with ...
Oct
02
The forgotten czar of Russian social media in Moscow
The following is a really cool video of Zuckerberg in Moscow. In what appeared as a heavily choreographed event to rally the support ...
Oct
01
$20.7B spent mobile shopping. Doubled.
Although the mobile commerce market has been reality for some time now, mobile retail sales figures were disappointing. At least until ...
Sep
25
Top 10 Most Active VC Firms
Today, I compiled a list of the most active Venture Capital investors in the US in Q2 2012 using Thomson Reuters data. Although the ...
Sep
23
Mitt Romney: M$ney, risk and ambiguity
I personally love the following story of Mitt Romney and Staples. It embodies my passion for VC. The video is also a true testament ...
Sep
19
iPhone 5: thinner, faster and better. Really!?
Today, I learned about the release of Apple’s iPhone 5, and its official launch on Sept 21. The new version will feature 8MP camera, ...
Sep
15
Groupon launches low-cost mobile payments.
Groupon launches its new Payments platform and its “the lowest-cost option” for merchants who run a daily deal with the ...
Sep
10
YCombinator: Say no to Google Ventures
How startups should be funded at the early stage has been a point of great controversy.
This week Paul Graham from YCombinator just ...