Every year, WilmerHale, Ernst & Young and J. Robert Scott publish a very topical compensation guide for startups. In previous years, it’s always been bound in hardcopy and PDF and usually in the hands of VC firms. This year’s survey will be posted online. If you’re a startup executive, you can take the survey here. [...]
Over the last few quarters, a number of hedge funds have accumulated large positions in Apple Computer (AAPL). Apple features prominently in the top fifteen holdings of at least Blue Ridge Capital, Citadel, Conatus Capital, Eminence Capital, Galleon, Maverick Capital, Tiger Global and Tremblant Capital. In quite a few of these funds, AAPL has been [...]
Skype founders sue again to disrupt Ebay deal (Business Insider) Buffet’s missed call could have changed Lehman history (Telegraph) Journalisted, an interesting site to keep track of journalists (Journalisted) Silicon Valley joblessness grows to 12 percent (SiliconValley.com) The debtification of the world (Infectious Greed) What makes the Mint dataset interesting (Infectious Greed) Yahoo puts Zimbra [...]
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Tech M&A is back (GigaOM) Why did Victorian England invest abroad? (SSRN) Starting Chipotle from scratch (WSJ) The man who’s beating Google (Forbes) The man who found quarks and made sense of the universe (Discover) Remember Crazy Eddie? His prices were insane because it was all a criminal operation (NPR) Luxury college dorms (Chicago Tribune) [...]
There’s a widely held belief that European entrepreneurs can’t build large, valuable technology companies, and as a result, investment performance in the European venture asset class is poor. As my old statistics professor used to say, “correlation does not imply causation.” Europe is perfectly capable of building great technology companies. Below is a graphic from [...]
