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3 days ago

Hiring for General Ability versus Specific Skills

The Paypal mafia went off to start some amazing companies to include Yelp, Yammer, Palantir, SpaceX, Tesla, and YouTube among them. Jason Portnoy suspects it could be there was a lot of latent talent in these individuals that was identified by the people who hired them. Jason was employee number…

Entrepreneurship

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Hiring for General Ability versus Specific Skills
Hiring for General Ability versus Specific Skills

Jun 30

3 Insights from Taoism for Modern Life

Taoism is an ancient East Asian philosophy that emphasizes living with the natural order of the universe. It is the road, or path, that cannot be grasped as a concept. It must be experienced intuitively as we live our daily lives. Taoism’s primary body of work is the Tao Te…

Personal Development

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3 Insights from Taoism for Modern Life
3 Insights from Taoism for Modern Life

Jun 27

Fundamental Attribution Error

Our tendency to perceive other people’s behavior as a reflection of their personality, rather than attribute those behaviors to situational or environmental conditions, is known as the Fundamental Attribution Error. For example, the man who cut us off in traffic did so because he is rude, not because he may…

Psychology

1 min read

Fundamental Attribution Error
Fundamental Attribution Error

Jun 25

Physical Newspapers — Your Old Alpha is the New Alpha

Looking to spot trends? Try reading the physical newspaper again. There’s a certain serendipity to reading the physical newspaper; your eyes flow differently. You’re seeing how the news was meant to be laid out, and you’ll often notice something you had no intention of reading. According to Spencer Jakab in…

Investing

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Physical Newspapers — Your Old Alpha is the New Alpha
Physical Newspapers — Your Old Alpha is the New Alpha

Jun 12

Dealing with the Down Round

At first it’s a trickle, then a deluge. After being valued at over $5B last year, the Crypto financial services firm BlockFI is reportedly in the process of closing a down round valuing it at just $1B. This may be a signal the carnage that’s hit public tech is finally…

Entrepreneurship

2 min read

Dealing with the Down Round
Dealing with the Down Round

Jun 11

Just World Fallacy

The idea is simple, most people believe you get what you deserve. What comes around, goes around. Karma will settle the score eventually. This naïve view of the world was coined the “Just World Hypothesis” by psychologist Alan Lerner circa 1980. The ‘just world’ cognitive bias enables believers to adapt…

Psychology

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Just World Fallacy
Just World Fallacy

Jun 5

Peter Drucker and the Greatest Quarterback of All Time

“What gets measured gets managed.” ~ Peter Drucker Nearly everyone reading this post has probably heard the phrase, “What gets measured gets managed.” at some point in their career; and with loving attribution to Peter Drucker. Let’s take a brief look at “measurement” when it comes to sports: In a…

Entrepreneurship

2 min read

Peter Drucker and the Greatest Quarterback of All Time
Peter Drucker and the Greatest Quarterback of All Time

May 27

Staytuned acquires Moonship, an AI-based Personalized Discounts App

Social Leverage portfolio company (Fund III) Staytuned has completed the acquisition of Moonship, a Shopify app that creates AI-based personalized discounts. Details: Moonship was founded in November of 2020 to help Shopify merchants convert reluctant buyers browsing their online stores. …

Startup

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·May 17

Founder in Focus: Jake Taylor of Farnam Street Investments

This week’s Remarkable person is Jake Taylor of Farnam Street Investments. Jake started Farnam after studying the investment process and decision-making for more than fifteen years. It gave him a sense of where the holes in his processes were. Our brains take shortcuts whenever they can to conserve glucose; we’ve…

Startup

4 min read

Founder in Focus: Jake Taylor of Farnam Street Investments
Founder in Focus: Jake Taylor of Farnam Street Investments

May 11

Brainstorming for Dummies

As a startup, brainstorming is probably a technique you’re intimately familiar with. The crew assembles, you present the problem, and…

Entrepreneurship

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Brainstorming for Dummies
Brainstorming for Dummies

Brainstorming for Dummies

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