As we know this is Super Bowl week and all the hype that goes with it. However one thing that stands out between the teams playing is the ongoing high level of success the Patriots have had since Bill Belichick became their coach. During the interviews that have been written, I read Kevin Faulk’s response to…
Read Full Article about What CEOs Can Learn From Bill Belichick…Hot on the heels of last month’s announcement of a brand new Cornell technology campus on New York City”s Roosevelt Island, Mayor Bloomberg had more big news this afternoon. At his State of the Commonwealth address, the mayor announced the opening of the Software Engineering Academy in Union Square in September. With financial support from…
Read Full Article about NYC’s Blitz on Technology EducationBill Maris from Google Ventures recently did an interview that was posted in the WSJ Venture Dispatch. It was a forward-looking piece focusing on what lies ahead in 2012 for the venture community. While a variety of topics were touched upon, a few in particular really mesh well with OpenView’s mentality and aspirations as we…
Read Full Article about A Goal for 2012: Partner With Entrepreneurs Who Think BIGIn Tech Crunch last week there was blog titled “The Lies Entrepreneurs Tell” by AshKan Karbasfrooshan the founder and CEO of WatchMoJo. The 5 lies he lists are: Lie No. 1: “I have no regrets” or “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t do it any differently” Lie No. 2: “It’s not personal,…
Read Full Article about Lies Entrepreneurs Tell…This is the first in a series of posts that I am writing aimed at helping entrepreneurs maximize their economic performance. You can find a summary of the economic model series here. Business Economic Model Defined A business economic model describes how your business works from an economic perspective. Simply put, it describes how the…
Read Full Article about Economic Model Series, Part 1: What is a Business Economic Model?At a speaking engagement a few weeks ago, an incredibly insightful blackjack-card-counter-turned-author named Jeff Ma made a claim that caught my attention via Twitter: “Four times as many mistakes are made due to inactivity versus activity.” I found this interesting, so I retweeted it and set out to do some research on what exactly he meant.…
Read Full Article about Risk Taking, Blackjack, and the EntrepreneurI just finished watching great TED talk by Kathryn Schulz on Being Wrong. Go ahead and watch it now… It starts slow, but bear with me. It has an important message. Pay close attention to her slide on the “series of unfortunate assumption.” Brilliant! As I listened to her, I reflected on how her talk…
Read Full Article about Are You Brave Enough to Be Wrong?As a venture capital associate, I’m privileged to speak with entrepreneurs every day about their businesses. In over three years of conversations, I’ve had the chance to speak with all kinds of founders. I’ve spoken with CEOs of varying ages (from the kid who started his business in his dorm room to the 75-year-old third-generation…
Read Full Article about 10 Concepts Many Successful Entrepreneurs Have MasteredThe news was shocking. I was crushed when I learned of Steve Jobs’s passing last week. His goal was to leave a dent in the universe, and now we have a dent and a hole. Shocking… This can’t be the end of the Steve Jobs story. The most crushing part of learning of Steve’s…
Read Full Article about Something to Look Forward to: Steve Jobs’s Final “One More Thing”!Steve, Thank your for all you’ve done in making the world a better place through your vision and drive to bring to people around the globe the great experiences in using the products and services you inspired. I won’t dwell much on all you’ve brought to the world, but I do want to thank you…
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