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Lessons from Chance the Rapper (Value Chains and Profit Pools)
“Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, known professionally as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and philanthropist from the West Chatham neighborhood of...
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Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance in Investing and Business – Lessons from...
Richard Zeckhauser is an American economist and a Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Charlie Munger has said about him: “The right way to think is the way...
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Business and Investing Lessons from Steve Martin’s Movie The Jerk
Steve Martin tells a story as part of his current comedy tour in which he encounters a teenager who asks if him he was in The Jerk. Martin proudly says to the teen: “Yes, that was me in that movie,”...
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Business and Investing Lessons from Caddyshack
There are certainly some people who don’t know that Caddyshack is a 1980 comedy movie directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney and the director Ramis. These people...
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Lessons from Scott Belsky’s Book “The Messy Middle”
Scott Belsky is Adobe’s Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud. He co-founded Behance in 2006 and served as CEO until it was acquired by Adobe in 2012. He is the author of...
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Lessons from Howard Marks’ New Book: “Mastering the Market Cycle – Getting...
Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, an investment manager with more than $120 billion in assets under management. How smart is Marks and how sound is his...
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Lessons from Annie Duke (Author of “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter...
Annie Duke received an NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study cognitive psychology. Because she missed the job market one year due to a stomach ailment that...
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Execution is Everything
I have wanted to write a review of John Doerr’s book Execution is Everything since it was first published five months ago. Some of you are probably saying right now: “That’s not the name of his...
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50 Cent versus Kanye: Should Fiddy have used the Objectives and Key Results...
In interviews leading up to the September 11, 2007 release date of his album entitled Curtis, 50 Cent said publicly that he would retire from the music business if Kanye’s album Graduation sold more...
View ArticleSecrets of Sand Hill Road (Venture Capital and How to Get It) — Know Venture...
Scott Kupor’s new book Secrets of Sand Hill Road is a bottom-to-top explanation of venture capital and other aspects of growing a business intended for founders, board members, employees, investors,...
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A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Jenny Lee about Investing and Business
Jess Lee is an investing partner at Sequoia Capital and the former chief executive officer of Polyvore (a fashion web site allowing users to create shareable collages of clothing and interior...
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