Posts filed under “Analysis”
Startup accelerators in 2011
I’ve long been interested in the seed accelerator model, as started by Y Combinator. I wrote my master’s thesis on it, and wrote a follow-up post this spring. Recently, two things have happened that I wanted to write about. First, I restructured the spreadsheet where I maintained a list of all companies to come out [...]
Your guide to getting London 2012 Olympics tickets
I went to the Olympics for the first time in 2008, and had the most amazing experience. If you’re someone that enjoys sport (any sport) it is an experience of a lifetime. The ticketing process opens Tuesday, March 15th: 500 days before the Opening Ceremonies. This post is a guide to (most) everything you want [...]
Looking back – 1.5 years since “Copying Y Combinator”
It’s been nearly one and a half years since I originally wrote my paper on seed accelerators: “Copying Y Combinator: Why and How”, which focused on how other people or organizations could create their own programmes. I wanted to reflect on what has changed, and what hasn’t changed since, and what that means for the [...]
What I struggle with every day…
Seth Godin truly nailed it on the head today with a short blog post titled “In and out“. That’s one of the most important decisions you’ll make today. How much time and effort should be spent on intake, on inbound messages, on absorbing data… and how much time and effort should be invested in output, [...]
“My Nuclear Life” by Chris Brownfield – a review
My Nuclear Life, written by Christopher Brownfield, was published recently. It chronicles his ~6 year career in the Navy, which primarily consisted of 3 years on the USS Hartford and 1 year in Iraq. I served on board the USS Hartford with Chris for about a year. This post is a review of his book [...]
Switching from the iPhone 3G to the Nexus One and Android – my story
I was lucky enough to have joined Google in enough time to receive a Nexus One as the company’s holiday gift to employees. Though it has been written about extensively, I wanted to share my perspectives as someone that switched from my previous iPhone 3G to the Nexus One. (Note that enough though I got [...]
As if on cue… (Checklists, round 2)
Yesterday, I wrote about an absolute must-read book: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right It has been shown in an extensive world-wide study that a simple checklist used in surgery cuts infection rates, cuts death rates, and saves costs. It does all of these by substantial margins, everywhere they’ve been implemented. But so [...]
The Checklist Manifesto – A hugely important book
Back in 2007 I read a fascinating article called “The Checklist” written by Dr. Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. Atul Gawande is a practicing surgeon, MacArthur Fellow, Rhodes Scholar and professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. The article described how a doctor convinced a group of hospitals in Michigan [...]