Wrote an article on speed reading a few weeks ago that got picked up on the blog of Steve Yoshida, an MIT Sloan School MBA: Above: Excerpt from Steve Yoshida’s post on speed reading I can’t read Japanese, so I ran Steve’s blog through Microsoft Translator, an online service transforming websites from one language to ...
JobNob connects Startups with job seekers open to working for either traditional or alterative pay. In my mind, it’s a huge service to both audiences. Last Thursday, they packed Illusions Supper Club in Palo Alto with an Ivy League Happy Hour where I and fellow Stanford MBAs met some of the hottest new companies coming ...
Found an article at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies I wanted to share: Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs. #10: Failing to incorporate early enough #9: Issuing founder shares without vesting #8: Hiring a lawyer not experienced in dealing with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists #7: Failing to make a timely Section 83 (b) election ...
Stanford MBAs can studying speedcubing for credit towards their degree ...
To paraphrase: The key predictor of success is whether people on a team give a s— about each other. Have a dream, then list the top 100 people who can help achieve that dream; strategize on how to meet them. Bait your hook with real generosity, because no one wants to help self-serving strangers. Never ...
Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, and Bing Gordon, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, dropped by Stanford to present a the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series. Mark just got back from a press tour resulting in cover stories in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Business Week and in the fashion section of the New York ...
First year Stanford MBAs get ~$40 of free stuff for registering their bikes for $3.50 at the Parking and Transportation building. Here’s what I picked up today: Above (left to right): Set of bike lights (compare at $30), reflective leg band (compare at $10), my receipt for $3.50. No vouchers or coupons to deal ...
Interesting LifeHacker article on workspaces for famous people. It’s interesting that Al Gore has a bigger PC and workspace than Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer combined. Steve Jobs‘ sports an uncanny sense of minimalism that totally explains the lack of right click in Macs today. ...