Altos Ventures Musings
Questions, thoughts and observations about venture capital, entrepreneurship, investing and business.
Links and Recent Posts
- The First Breaking Point
- Beyond The Lean StartUp
- Start From the Heart
- Replacing CEOs
- They Can't Tell You How To Soar
- Passion
- Another Bubble
- Don't Drink Your Own Kool-Aid
- Overused and Misunderstood - Capital Efficiency
- Another Perspective on Yahoo!
- 25 Heat Seeking Missiles (and 10 Key Lessons)
- The Fourth Wave
- Thoughts on Horses by Henry Ford (1908)
- Fred Wilson and John Doerr disagree about the iPad
- Fat Startup Watch
- What Did Bill Gates Worry About? Lean or Fat?
- Ben Horowitz Makes Compelling Case for Lean
- So What's With All This Talk of Failure?
- A Little Warning For All Those Skeptics of the iPad
- What Makes a Great Teacher (and Entrepreneur)?
- Nexus One and the Real Reason to Get Excited Today
- Celebrity Investors, Board Members & Advisors
- Overcommitted
- Modest Proposal for the VC Industry: Customer Service
- Entrepreneurial Brilliance
- Top 10 VCs on Facebook
- Burn the Ships!
- Fat and Happy
- The Death of Tech and Entrepreneurship?
- RIP Good Times? A Different Perspective
- Don't Worry, Be Scrappy
- Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Ousting the Founder
- Failing Fast
- Do No Harm
- No Substitute For Time
- The Ramp Phase
- Learning to Give a Damn
- Fear of The Living Dead
- The Peter Principle
- Cashing Out
- Cargo Cult Capital
- Focus on the Controllables
- Swinging for the Fences
- Raising Sheep
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- The Future of Software
- Compounding Value
- Leggo My Ego
- Foxes and Hedgehogs
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For more info, try doing a Google search on foxes and hedgehogs in business.
Books
- Beyond Entrepreneurship
- Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth
- Bootstrapping Your Business
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Fooled by Randomness
- Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck
- Growing a Business
- Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense
- Hedgehogging
- Lucky or Smart?
- Mind Your Own Business
- Money Game
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- On Leadership
- Origin of Wealth
- Rework
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
- Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society
- Small Giants : Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
- The Effective Executive
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- The Halo Effect
- The HP Way
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- The Intelligent Investor
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