mattty
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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Try Epaulet or Taylor Stitch
Comment · 11 years ago
If you find this interesting, Wasserman expanded his thesis into a book[0], an academic study of startups. Highly recommended.
[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Ent...
Comment · 12 years ago
And here's an IFTTT recipe to go with it: https://ifttt.com/recipes/201372-email-subscription-to-famou...
Comment · 12 years ago
Good article highlighting the equally valid modes of rationalising different options.
A useful book that can help one think through these (and many more) types of decisions is "The Founder's Dilemmas"[1]. In it, Wasserman (former professor of mine) explores the trade-offs one must make in founding, with examples. Very helpful.
Comment · 12 years ago
Disagree with the premise. Excel is a great product because it's so flexible. The same product that financiers use to create valuation models can be used by your mum to create a grocery list, or your small business to create an invoice. A spreadsheet is a blank canvas which can be used to create pretty much anything, and doesn't force the user to use it for a single use case or in one specific way.
Comment · 13 years ago
A useful counterpoint from Ben Horowitz: http://bhorowitz.com/2012/05/18/is-now-the-time-to-hire-mbas...
Comment · 13 years ago
The analysis is a little flawed in that it assumes the composition of the incoming class has remained consistent each year. In fact, Dean Nohria, who took over in July 2010, shifted the composition of the incoming class (the class of 2013) away from finance (finance as a pre-MBA industry showed a decline of 7%pt vs 2012 class[1]).
This in part explains the shift in choice of career post-HBS.
[1] http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/06/harvard-down-on-finance...
Is founder ceo succession inherently less likely at YC startups due to YC selection process?
[0]: The Founder's Dilemmas, Wasserman, p.299