FOA Angel Series #5: Quick cheap deaths & occasion
This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices (SFO’s) by The Family Office Association. Those looking forRead More
MoneyBall for the rest of us #2: What Choate Baseball L
Continued from Moneyball and TY #1… Choate will soon honor Baseball legend Tom Yankus in an as-yet-undisclosed grand gesture. But lifetime winning averagesRead More
FOA Angel Series #3: Your Money or your Freedom. Choose
This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices by The Family Office Association. For a complete copy, visitRead More
MoneyBall for the rest of us: Choate Baseball Legend To
MoneyBall got some Oscar nods recently; “Hollywood newcomer Brad Pitt may have finally arrived” quipped George Clooney from his Golden Globe podium. Meanwhile, another greatRead More
FOA Angel series #2: Look for the Golden Triangle
This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices by The Family Office Association. Those looking for talesRead More
Angel Series #1: If you were capable of inventing Faceb
This excerpt is serialized from a whitepaper titled Angel Investing for Single Family Offices by The Family Office Association and Vaux les Ventures.Read More
The Black Widow and 9 Ball taught me lots about startup
I once beat Janet Lee, the famous black widow, at nine ball in a giant exhibition. * ** While you’ll have to read toRead More
Defecit Super Committee newsflash: USA spends more than
Years ago I got my start on Wall Street and was assigned to read business plans for a tiny investment banking boutique named Beuret &Read More
True or False. Life or Death. What do you believe in?
I got this from a recent sermon. It works for start ups. Belief is only really real when true or false means life orRead More
A Founder’s leadership lesson: when to get the @#
Ten years, I co-founded Kayak for a Cause with Scott Carlin and we grew it to an charity organization of hundreds of participantsRead More