I recently learned about an entrepreneur with a very clever business model: Thorkil Sonne, founder of Danish software testing company Specialisterne. The 55-person firm’s clients include CSC, Microsoft, and Oracle. Specialisterne claims to be the world’s first company focused on leveraging the unique talents of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Sonne started the company...
[Continue Reading]Raising Fund X: Trends in Private Equity Fundraising and Fund Evaluation
I enjoyed listening to a panel this morning sponsored by Broadgate Consultants on “Raising Fund “x”: Trends in Private Equity Fundraising and Fund Evaluation.” My rough notes follow: Panelists were: Dr. Oliver Gottschalg, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy, < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />HEC School of Management; Co-director, HEC-INSEAD Buyout Research...
[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]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 interests in investing and in online networks. Peter is President of Clarium...
[Continue Reading]How to Manage Virtual Employees
In our latest FastCompany column, we summarized best practices in managing virtual employees at Evalueserve: …Daigle observed that the virtual structure eliminates many political issues: “Not only do we not have much of the water cooler, idle time type of communication, and resulting issues — we don’t have time for it. I think there is...
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