Tag Archives: innovation
The Pale Blue Dot
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero […]
Growth vs. Retention
This is an important topic, especially when there are broader economic concerns, regardless of the legitimacy of those concerns, that we see companies scaling back costs to only the necessary services needed to operate their businesses. Essentially, growth without retention is not growth. Everyone wants hockey-stick growth which is based on acquiring new users, but you can’t […]
Funding the Future
One of the most fascinating current phenomena is the effect that the venture capital market has on the economy as a whole. As Bill Gurley noted at a recent Goldman Sachs technology conference, “FOMO” in the private markets is fueling valuations. As companies evaluate the tradeoffs of staying private to protect their business focus or […]
The Alchemy 