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MBA Mondays Post - Aug 30, 2010
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career. I was working on a CEO Read more
MBA Mondays Post - Aug 16, 2010
A reader suggested this topic for MBA Mondays. It is a good one. When a customer commits to spend money with your company, that is a “booking”. A booking is often tied to some form of contract between your company Read more
MBA Mondays Post - Aug 16, 2010
A reader suggested this topic for MBA Mondays. It is a good one. When a customer commits to spend money with your company, that is a “booking”. A booking is often tied to some form of contract between your company and Read more
MBA Mondays Post - Aug 7, 2010
A reader asked me to blog about the "Venture Partner" role in VC firms. I thought it was a good suggestion so here goes. A Venture Partner is a person who a VC firm brings on board to help them do Read more
MBA Mondays Post - Aug 2, 2010
MBA Mondays Post - Jul 26, 2010
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about another form of costs; Sunk Costs. Sunk Costs are time and money (and other resources) you have already spent on a project, investment, or some other effort. They have been sunk Read more
MBA Mondays Post - Jul 19, 2010
We are going to turn our attention on MBA Mondays to some costs that are important to recognize in business. First up is Opportunity Cost. Opportunity Cost is the cost of not being able to do something because you are doing Read more
MBA Mondays Post - Jun 14, 2010
We are big believers in the power of Internet marketplaces to bring efficiencies and new opportunities to people and businesses. And the market where this has the most potential of all is the labor market. So we are excited to announce Read more
MBA Mondays Post - May 31, 2010
Last week we talked about budgeting in a growing company. I defined that as a company between 50 and 100 employees. Today we are going to wrap up the budgeting series by talking about what happens to the process when Read more