Month: July 2011
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Aligning Incentives: Preferred vs Common Stock
An investor friend of mine posted on his blog this question: This week’s sign of tech bubble: multiple seed-stage startups demanding investors buy common stock instead of preferred. Thoughts? I have strong professional opinions on this and will draft a full blog post on the topic, but thought I’d crowdsource some input first… Every…
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Contentment is not found in more
What makes someone rich? Being surrounded by a group of people who you love, of course. Though this really wasn’t what my friends and I were trying to actually posit by the question. We reworded it to: “What do others think that it takes in order to consider themselves rich?” Someone speculated that having a…
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The Consequences of Price
On a fluke, I recently visited BlockBuster for the first time in 4 years. Between Netflix and Redbox, I never really consider renting a movie from the expensive brick and mortar place. Walking through the store, I could almost smell the death of their business. Their competitors have displaced them. Even though they’ve changed their…
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Finding Joy in Moving
I hate moving. But I love helping other people move. Even if an acquaintance is moving, I often volunteer to help even before they’ve picked a date. This weekend I had the opportunity to help some friends move. People are always surprised when I tell them I enjoy helping other people move and so I…