An Outdated Investment Model
For a number of reasons, I believe that the model used by many venture capital firms is in dire need of a retread. While the model has shown to be profitable in the past, this appears to be more a lucky, accidental result of circumstances rather than through proactive application of sound business principles. These thoughts here are based on my somewhat limited exposure to working with venture capital firms, certainly talking to others and following the news, but also sitting down with a couple of VC’s and walking through this. Read more
Communication 2.0
The proliferation of different ways to connect these days is unbelievable. I swear that some days, the requests to become friends or linked or follow tweets outnumber the regular e-mails in my old-fashioned inbox. That stated, though, I’m not sure that the real issue is going away. Are we really communicating more effectively? Read more
Driven to Distraction
From what I have seen, many ‘process improvement’ initiatives have failed to live up to expectations, and some have definitely done more harm than good. Perhaps this is because even the term ‘process improvement’ implies a distraction from the real point of the exercise. Read more
Rabid Dogma
Proposed approaches to building products, software or otherwise, will come and go. One thing that seems to be constant through all this change is that the voice of the latest and greatest is convinced that they have solved the problem once and for all. Read more
