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Silicon Valley: Only Game in Town?
With 41% of all U.S. venture capital investing activity, Silicon Valley is the nation’s unrivaled tech early technology investing epicenter.As the innovations and wealth that have flowed from Valley...
View ArticleIn Investing, Does Fortune Really Favor the Bold?
Last week my post on investment motivations generated a lot of great responses.Many were of the genre that “…Yes these companies you describe sound amazing - awesome technologies, exciting markets,...
View ArticleWho, Why, When: 15 Minute Due Diligence for the Modern Investor
Over the last two weeks we have discussed the motivations of private equity investors, and then characteristics of companies with breakout potential.So now we are at brass tacks: actually making Yes/No...
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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does
All of a sudden, it is boom time again for venture capital funds, with over $10.3 billion in fresh capital raised by 578 funds in the 1st quarter, up 36% from 2012. And high profile exits on deals like...
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Improved Liquidity, Investment Flexibility, and Labor Arbitrage
There were some great responses to my post last week as to the poor returns experienced by venture capital fund investors.Some suggested that the blame for this lied more with the very difficult market...
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The Perfect Investor
There were a lot of Warren Buffett "hero worship" type responses to my posts last week on "Doing As Warren Does" and applying the principles utilized to make Berkshire Hathaway the most successful...
View Article[Report] Here’s Why the Stock Market is Broken
Remember the bull markets of the 1980s and 1990s, when everybody was making money in the stock market? Bad News: Those days are GONE… and they’re not coming backClick below to discover mine and...
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Why Wall Street Can’t Be Trusted and What to Do About It
Over the last three weeks, we have discussed the various factors that drive the 25% IRR return potential of the startup and emerging company investing class.We then reviewed the various approaches to...
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Getting Robbed at the Bank
I took my six and eight-year old sons to the bank this weekend to open their first savings account.It felt like the right thing to do - they are at an age where they can understand the power and...
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Getting Robbed at the Bank, Part II
Last week, I talked about Getting Robbed at the Bank - how today's Low Interest Rates (0.1%!) combined with High Inflation Risk make this one of the worst times ever to build wealth via...
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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?
The incredible prices paid for high flying technology stocks this past year - whether it be in the form of acquisitions, in the cases of Dropcam, Open Table, WhatsApp, OcculusVR, and Nest, or in the...
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The Internet of Things
I had the good fortune to attend GTK’s and Pillsbury’s amazing Internet of Things Private Executive Event in Palo Alto last week.It was a star-studded, technocratic affair - drawn from Kamal Ahmed’s...
View ArticleThe Spirit of America
On this great day when we celebrate America, our freedoms and our way of life, please enjoy (and please share on Twitter with the hashtag #SpiritofAmerica) this list of twenty - five of why this is the...
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The Rise of the Machines
Last week, I shared three themes percolating in the dynamic Internet of Things (IoT) movement: 1) Wearable Devices driving health and wellness breakthroughs 2) Embedded Sensors “incrementally”...
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Today’s B2B: Go Mobile or Go Home
How are the best business-to-business (B2B) companies and brands getting past the noise and the online clutter and connecting with their clients and customers?Well, marketing research firm Motista...
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Chief Executives and Chief Shareholders: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Small business owners lead the most efficient and effective organizations ever designed by human hands - profit-seeking businesses where the Chief Executive Officer also happens to be the Chief (as in...
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The Power of Failure
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston ChurchillAt...
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What Unifies All Great Businesses?
The fundamental challenge of modern business is finding that right balance between tactics and strategy, between execution and innovation, between management and entrepreneurship.Typically, as...
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What Do Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and Starbucks have in common?
Wal-Mart.McDonalds. Starbucks.What do they have in common? Well, for one, they are businesses that were not started and grown from scratch by their original founders.Rather, they were all started by...
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RISK…and what to do about it
The four letter word in all conversations between entrepreneurs and investors is risk.Investors are always interested in getting ownership stakes in high potential companies but are also always weary...
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