Viewed in Bloomberg Businessweek with Michael P. Regan. Echoing Buffet’s “buy and hold” theme for successful investing, Bloomberg’s Michael P. Regan argues that active buying and selling of equities remains an immensely complex and time-sensitive undertaking, and that most investors—even those who manage large funds for a living—have proven largely ineffectual at it. The most… More
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Viewed in The Wall Street Journal with Christopher Mims. What was old is new again. With emails, companies do not depend on gatekeepers to reach their addressees. While Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter remain popular social media outlets for corporations, recent privacy concerns and complexities with each platform’s algorithms have many companies once again seeing great… More
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Viewed on TomTunguz.com with Tomasz Tunguz. Tomasz Tunguz, a venture capitalist with Redpoint Ventures, attended SaaStr, and this article summarizes his presentation there on the research data report he co-authored. Tunguz and Chase received an impressive 600 corporate responses to their survey on Software as a Service (SaaS) companies’ experiences with free BtoB product trials…. More
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Viewed in The New York Times with Richard Perez-Pena. The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union back in June 2016. Yet, going on three years later, their departure has finally been scheduled for this March 29. One of the benefits of the EU is the development of standards that permitted goods to travel… More
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Viewed in The Wall Street Journal with Elizabeth Bernstein. This Wall Street Journal article tackles the reality of the 21st century marriage: As much as prominent executives, like all of us, take our marital vows expecting them to be for life, the reality of divorce statistics force us to address the reality that not all marriages… More
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Viewed on SaaStr with Jason Lemkin. In this article, Jason Lemkim, provides guidance to successful executives pondering the launching of a startup. His advice: Go for it, but keep some common startup myths prominently in mind: Startups rarely launch quickly; they typically take 24 months to reach fruition. Venture capital may still be the buzz, but… More
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Viewed in The New York Times with Amie Tsang. John Bogle, who founded the giant U.S. money management firm Vanguard, passed away earlier this month at age 89. Bogle’s firm, which ultimately grew to have an astounding $4.9 trillion under management, was built on a belief that, over the long term, most investment managers cannot… More
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