A constant complaint we hear around the office is that emails we receive (and sometimes send) are poorly written or unclear. According to "How to Write a Perfect Email", when writing an email that warrants a reply, there are four key components to get a quick and valid response: 1. Brevity- [...continue reading]
Archives for 2007
Content is Dead, Community is King? The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry
My colleague Jesse Mandell took detailed notes on the recent SIIA panel on Brown Bag Lunch: Content is Dead, Community is King? The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry". You can view the web broadcast at no charge here. Panelists: Leslie Forde, VP [...continue reading]
Indian Gold Market Overview
A Bullish Slant from this Key Market We recently listened to a conference call with a preeminent expert in the Indian gold market, and several of the points raised during the call merit the attention of commodity-oriented investors. Short term macro issues like the weakness of the dollar or global [...continue reading]
Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry
I have attached below some notes from last Monday's Financial Markets World conference on Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry , at Bayard's, New York. My own talk was on "How to Source Deals with Web 2.0 Technologies". It was focused on how private equity [...continue reading]
How Law Firms Can Increase Their Billings with Web 2.0 Technologies
I finally had a chance to upload slides prepared by my partner Scott Lichtman on how law firms can use Web 2.0 technologies to increase their billings. Download. Scott delivered this presentation as a talk some months ago. [...continue reading]
Secrets of Silicon Alley's Serial Entrepreneurs, Sep. 10, NYC
I’m looking forward to speaking at the monthly New York Software Industry Association meeting on September 10 in New York. The topic is ‘Secrets of Silicon Alley's Serial Entrepreneurs’. Carter Burden, Laurel Touby and I will be sharing our thoughts. (Personally, I think the key [...continue reading]
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
HBS professor Mark Bradshaw reports "The prediction was that all [Wall Street sell-side research] analysts would be more optimistic for firms that were issuing debt and equity securities than for firms that were either not engaging in such activity or were reducing their financing needs. An integral [...continue reading]
Peter Thiel, Paypal co-founder, on How New Technologies Thwart Government and Promote Freedom
I enjoyed tonight's talk by Peter Thiel at NYC Junto, on "How New Technologies Thwart Government and Promote Freedom". Junto is a libertarian-focused discussion group organized by Victor Niederhoffer. I've been following Peter's writing for a while, since we overlap directly in our [...continue reading]
Do-it-yourself iPhone
If you want to avoid the lines, Techcrunch writes how to cobble together an iPhone equivalent for free. [...continue reading]
