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April 9, 2023
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Small Businesses on Private Equity’s Radar?
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Why a Founder Didn’t Sell to Private Equity
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Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Sixty-Six
Founders Are Shifting Their Focus
Distressed Amazon Aggregators
Walking Meetings
Happy Memorial Day 2023!
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Investor Entrepreneurs, Like Other Entrepreneurs, Need a Unique Insight
The Twin Tailwinds That Drove 2021’s IPO Explosion
My System for Picking a Blog Post Topic
Convinced, but Flexible Too
How I Consume Books I Value the Most
An Overlooked Reading Hack
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IPOs: 2021 Was Gargantuan
Better Customer Discovery?
Unwilling to Relocate
Public Company Accountability
Happy Mother’s Day
Negative Sentiment Can Be Reversed
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Seasoned Investor Insights
Enterprise Value
Writing, the Mental Workout
Extreme Negative Sentiment
Overcome Uncertainty by Figuring Things Out
Free Cash Flow
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Market Cycles and Venture Capital
Nothing Works Unless You Do
Apple Sees $1 Billion in Deposits in 4 Days
Interesting Nuggets from First Republic Bank’s Failure
More Demand for Disciplined Founders?
Biggest Takeaway from My Parents
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Sixty-One
Experimenting with a New Schedule
My “Retirement Plan”
Warren Buffett’s Uncharacteristic Early-Stage Investment
One Founder’s Taking Care of His Family and Swinging for the Fences
More Long-Form Pieces for Learning
Investor Entrepreneur: Warren Buffet and Buffett Partnership, Ltd.
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Sixty
Private Equity Consolidation of My Old Industry
A Debt and Equity Partner for an Early-Stage Traditional Business
Out of Runway
Apple Savings Accounts Have Launched
Uninsured Deposits and the Changing Banking Landscape
Somber Update Email
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Fifty-Nine
The Latitude to Make Mistakes
The Future Is Uncertain
Mark Leonard: Venture Capital to Holding Company
Acquiring Knowledge
Happy Easter!
Knowledge: An Edge within Everyone’s Grasp
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Fifty-Eight
Timeless Insights
How One VC Investor Fit Work into Life
Are You Driving or Being Driven?
What Is Culture?
Fitting Life into Work, or Vice Versa?
You Can’t Do a Good Deal with a Bad Person
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Fifty-Seven
Turnaround Time for Struggling Technology Companies?
Apple vs. Banks: A Digital-Wallet War
Entrepreneurial Writers
No Unicorn Exit? It’s okay.
Communities: A Great Way to Hack Product–Market Fit
Hipster and Hustler in One
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Fifty-Six
Breakeven: Another Way to Extend Your Runway
New Fund Managers Must Be Good Managers as Well as Good Investors
A Key Insight from Former Stitch Fix President
Aggressive Negotiations Can Kill Partnerships
1100+ Consecutive Posts
Second-Level Thinking
Weekly Reflection: Week One Hundred Fifty-Five
What’s Your Negotiating Style?
Takeaways from Scott Kupor at Andreessen Horowitz
Founder Hack: Treat Sweat Equity and Financial Equity Differently
Success and Failure Are Neighbors
Spotters Create Their Own Paths
Start-up Bank Failure
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Traits of a “Spotter” Entrepreneur
Biggest Companies: Fortune 500 vs. S&P 500
Don’t Act on Your Frustration
Traits Great Investors Have in Common
Great Contrarians Go Deep to Build Conviction
Carlyle Group Founder Created His Own Luck
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Carlyle Group’s Secret to Building Culture: Persuasion
The Wise Man
Investing and Probabilistic Thinking
When the Decision Is Easy but the Implementation Is Hard
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