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Startup Executive Compensation Survey

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.
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Apple and the mobile industry

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 [...]

What I’m reading this week

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)
Books on bubbles (NY Times)
A review of [...]

Startup book pack

Nigel Eccles, an entrepreneur and a friend, wrote this post on Techcrunch raving about Steven Blank’s book. He’s not the first and won’t be the last – Blank’s book is one of the best I’ve seen in the space. It is does the most poignant job of clarifying the difference between a painkiller and a [...]