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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?(medium.com)
70 points by abuteau 9y ago|29 comments
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Do Great Companies Stay Great?(medium.com)
1 points by abuteau 9y ago|0 comments
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by abuteau 9y ago
Other people that used that quote is Emanuel Derman. He's an interesting character (PHD in theoretical physics, Ex-Goldman Sachs Partner). He is the author of Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disas
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What Startups and Big Corporations Can Learn from Family-Controlled Businesses(medium.com)
1 points by abuteau 9y ago|0 comments
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Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy(medium.com)
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When Sales and Marketing Align: Impact on Performance(medium.com)
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Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance(medium.com)
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A Model to Identify Solutions to Legacy Systems Increasing Maintenance Costs(medium.com)
1 points by abuteau 9y ago|0 comments
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by abuteau 9y ago
Thanks, yes it's definitely sterile and at a high level. I've been on the fence whether I add examples of companies/use cases or keep it dry. I like to make articles max 5min, so I'll take your feedback and check if I ca
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by abuteau 9y ago
Hey! Thanks for reading and/or upvoting. This article is part of a series I started where I summarize an interesting research paper in the fields of business, management and strategy. This is inspired by by the morning paper [1] which
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Big Data for Big Business? A Taxonomy of Data-Driven Business Models(medium.com)
31 points by abuteau 9y ago|3 comments
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by abuteau 9y ago
Hey i'm Antoine the author. Let me know if you have questions/comments. Happy to hear your thought since the format is a work in progress. Here's two good papers to follow up: 1- From MIT, Ricardo J. Caballero which covers th
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Schumpeter’s Ghost: Is Hypercompetition Making the Best of Times Shorter?(medium.com)
2 points by abuteau 9y ago|1 comments
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To Buy or Not to Buy: A Checklist for Assessing Mergers and Acquisitions(medium.com)
1 points by abuteau 9y ago|0 comments
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Rethinking the Extraverted Sales Ideal: The Ambivert Advantage(medium.com)
1 points by abuteau 9y ago|0 comments
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Metaphors, Models and Theories(medium.com)
1 points by abuteau 10y ago|0 comments
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by abuteau 10y ago
Agreed on your comment (ex software dev, now management consultant).. In MC, the delivery of the case is extremely important (how you structure the solution, how you speak, how you present yourself, etc.). Your point on people optimizing is
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Tesla: Any Company Can Be Cash Flow Positive If It Stops Paying Its Bills(seekingalpha.com)
13 points by abuteau 10y ago|4 comments
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by abuteau 11y ago
I had the opportunity to be on the advisory board of my local bank at a very young age (19-21). I'm in Canada, so we have less competition and we were the leading bank in my region (size ~$2billion). You come to see at their problems
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by abuteau 11y ago
We have it in Canada too through Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs). I live in Quebec and basically every dollar invested in an RESP could be increased by 30% to 60% b/c of government grants. We can receive up to $7,200 from th
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by abuteau 12y ago
I tasted a toast from a smart toaster a few weeks ago and it was the best toast I have ever tasted. Looking forward to taste more products from smart cooking tools.
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by abuteau 12y ago
How do you see value investing vs MPT then ? I often refers to a good paperon What has worked in investing [1] I think Taleb criticism is right though and he demonstrates it through Mandelbrot fractal. [1] http://www8.gsb.columbi
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by abuteau 12y ago
There's ton of criticism on MPT. Would like to hear you on that ! Are they valid ? Should we use PMPT ?
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by abuteau 12y ago
It shouldn't be the way. We met Brad Feld last year in Las Vegas (Up Summit) and he talked about his depression[1]. I suggest everyone to read the depression archives on Brad Feld blog [2]. Pretty insightful posts. I tend to be obsessi
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Meet Amelia: the computer that's after your job(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by abuteau 12y ago|0 comments
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by abuteau 12y ago
I've visited the Downtown Project this summer part of the 2014 UP Summit. It's really a great place to be, the vibe is really good and there's ton of awesome projects. I think the project is well balanced. You have small busi
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by abuteau 12y ago
Been following Quandl for a while and really love where they are going with Premium dataset. I've been looking for a while for good fundamental stocks data via an API. There's xignite but they are overly complicated and expensive.
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by abuteau 12y ago
Sidenote: http://teleport.org/ Try to do something like that, but not crowdsourced. It's from Sten Tamkivi a16z entrepreneur in residence.
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by abuteau 12y ago
Thanks guys, appreciate !
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by abuteau 12y ago
Do you know some online open source version of BMC like https://strategyzer.com/ . Wish to have one, but can't find. Might build it myself if there is none.

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