I took your comments on business writing, read the books you told me to read, and have summarized it all in two pages because no one has time to read all that. (This is to give my students.) First draft, suggestions welcome.
Jerry Neumann
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- A taxonomy of moats. Still not happy with this, but I think it’s better than the last one. Thanks for all the input...Thoughts on this one welcome!
- This is sort of naive first cut at what I was thinking of before. Thoughts are welcome
- OK. V4 (and last iteration on Twitter). Pretty happy with this except the leaves are overlapping and necessarily incomplete. Thank you for the help
- Two of the companies I angel backed were added to the S&P 500 this past week. That's got to be some kind of record
- Replying to @MylesUdlandI'm worried this tweet gives the false impression you actually know what you're talking about
- Andy Grove came to the United States as a refugee when he was 21 years old, barely able to speak English and penniless. He got his bachelor's at City College and his PhD at UC Berkeley, both publicly-funded universities. He, as much as anyone, is responsible for Silicon Valley
- My current favorite probability paradox, the Two Envelopes Problem
- Replying to @AdamSingerI have yet to meet a religion that thinks it knows all? Buddhists obviously don't claim to Know much at all and the Christianity I was raised in saw God as 'working in mysterious ways'
- VCs who sneer at 'lifestyle' businesses primarily run firms that are lifestyle businesses
- I told Columbia I wouldn't be returning to teach next year. I love the place too much to participate in it collaborating in its own destruction It's low-paid, and kind of thankless work, but every once in a while I see a student using what I taught them and succeeding, and that
- I think pretty much the only prediction I'm willing to make about a decade hence is that Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook will still be four of the ten most valuable companies in the US
- Sometime I think the whole point of early-stage investing is keeping a company alive long enough for its breakout opportunity to appear
