My PI

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today about the rise in the use of personality tests by employers. It seems that their use has grown to somewhere in the 60 – 70% range from 30% to 40% just five years ago. Personality testing is now a $500 million a year industry growing at a […]

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September 30, 2014  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Management, Personal, Uncategorized

Balanced Teams

Last week Fred Wilson posted about this great interview of Marc Andreesson at Stanford Business School. Being a business school there were a lot of soon to be minted MBAs in the room and the interview is conducted by one of them. The whole interview is quite entertaining. At about the 4:30 mark Marc gets […]

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August 13, 2014  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Entrepreneurship, Management

Lessons From Reggie Aggarwal

The 8th annual SEVC rolled through Atlanta this week at the swank downtown Ritz Carlton. Put on by TechMedia, SEVC events average over $80 billion in private/venture capital in attendance. All that capital attracts entrepreneurs looking for funding and 48 companies pitched to packed rooms of investors. One of the most interesting presentations to me was not a […]

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May 8, 2014  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Entrepreneurship, Management

How I Work

A couple of months ago the good folks at Hypepotamus asked if if I would participate in their “How I Work” series in which people share their daily routines. I was flattered and of course accepted. I am republishing the full text here with their permission. You can see the original article here.  Lance Weatherby (@lance) builds thriving internet companies. […]

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January 14, 2014  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Entrepreneurship, Fun, Management, nCrowd, Personal

Improving Email Productivity

Over on A VC today Fred Wilson shared that he was basically starting over on email in 2014. Archiving everything. Starting from scratch. Given his position and popularity I am sure that Fred gets quite a bit of email, much more then me. But I was feeling a bit overwhelmed myself back in November as Black […]

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January 7, 2014  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Management, Personal