best vc background

August 18th, 2004

hmm, so who is really the better vc? someone with a strategic/operations background or a pure “finance wiz”? you be the judge yourself: Om Malik on Broadband: Who makes a Perfect VC: Operator or Investor?

i cannot really make up my mind. i have seen all: good vc’s with finance or operations background and bad vc’s with finance or operations background

wanna start a business?

August 16th, 2004

Feld Thoughts: Top 10 List

very sobering if you ever thought about your own business…

torchbearers

August 16th, 2004

interesting article on what it really takes to be an entrepreneur: Seth’s Blog: And from the Russian judge…

chinese proverb

August 12th, 2004

Chinese Proverb. “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” [Quotes of the Day]

newsmaps

August 6th, 2004

wow! i just stumbled across this very interesting new concept: NewsIsFree: Your Personal News Portal (you need to click on “view as map” to see the feature).

it shows news on a map sorted by popularity, age (when the news was released) and other categories!

check it out – it might actually become the way we look for what’s going on…

12 rules for entrepreneurs

July 27th, 2004

12 rules that will make every entrepreneurs life easier: Feld Thoughts: Financial Fitness for Entrepreneurs

Bored of Directors

July 27th, 2004

this blog entry by avc is very interesting, especially for europeans: A VC: Bored of Directors (Continued).

it would be interesting to think about setting up a similar type of situation here in european companies because the board of directors and the supervisory board is simply not the same!

and here is a follow up to fred’s post: OnlyOnce: The Good, The Board, and The Ugly – also an interesting read!

note to myself: i gotta figure this trackback thing out!

hot slide…

July 23rd, 2004

[Comics: Calvin and Hobbes] – ©2004 Universal Press Syndicate

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interesting thoughts

July 22nd, 2004

here are some very interesting posts on different business and management topics:

A VC: The Bored of Directors
Madeleines: Boomtime: Boards
Madeleines: Boomtime, Part Four: On Being the CEO
Madeleines: Boomtime: Why Diversity Matters (make sure to read the poem at the end!)
Madeleines: Boomtime: Why not me?

i know that i could have done that somehow through trackbacks… but i still don’t have a grasp on the concept and it doesn’t seem to work on wordpress 1.2 (according to the support forum…)

john f. kennedy

July 22nd, 2004

John F. Kennedy. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” [Quotes of the Day]