Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Cool Books Friends Are Releasing
A roundup of four books that friends have written and are coming out in the next week or so. Ranges from fiction to graphic novels to startling non-fiction. Ales Kot is releasing “Wild. Children”. I’ve seen him iterate the graphic … Continue reading
Review – Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers Consider a business model to be an engine. One that generates opportunity – wealth for investors, freedom for entrepreneurs, jobs for employees, value for customers. Like all machines, this … Continue reading
Is It Time for Price Per Square Foot to Die?
Connect:Homes is a pretty cool modular housing company. They’ve adapted their designs so that that fully prepared units can be shipped anywhere using standard industrial transporting practices. (Shipping containers.) That’s smart. Unfortunately, the company is using the standard real estate … Continue reading
Review: Founders at Work – Stories of Startups’ Early Days
If you read too much conceptual or technical stuff, you can lose sight of the other side of business. The human side. And, as everyone who is anyone is fond of saying, investors don’t invest in ideas, they invest in … Continue reading
Review: Inbound Marketing and Content Marketing
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series) by Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan of Hubspot. Inbound Marketing is one of those things that you intuitively get. “Of course that’s how you do it.” … Continue reading