- Global VC blog directory (Larry Cheng)
- Venture capitalists who aren’t jerks (WSJ)
- Goldman and hits driven businesses (The Atlantic)
- US colleges aren’t graduating their students (NY Times)
- Do buyouts still create value (Journal of Finance)
- Why Jon Moulton quit, in his own colorful words (PEHub)
- What happens in financial markets when everyone runs for the exit (CEPR)
- Inflation fears (New Yorker)
- Good piece on the culture behind Zappos (New Yorker)
- Wired piece on Nanosolar (Wired)
- History behind Silicon Valley (Steve Blank)
- How the oil industry was the original Silicon Valley (Forbes)
- Yergin on oil (Foreign Policy)
- How long does it take to build a tech startup (IPO Dashboards)
- What does it take to go public today (IPO Dashboards)
- Good review of Snow Leopard (ArsTechnica)
- Why Cadbury’s chocolates taste so bad in the US (WSJ)
- Lloyd Blankfein on banker pay (Bloomberg)
Problem #2
Musings on venture capital and the inefficient private markets