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I recently read “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The book draws on many of the cases covered during my still-ongoing Stern MBA program. In particular, Ries draws significant inspiration from the Toyota production method and approach to quality management. The book has some interesting nuggets and was a quick read. Ries uses several examples, someContinue reading “The Lean Startup, In Bullet Form”

I recently visited Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan, the tent city home of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It was a gloomy, rainy day when I visited, and there were far fewer than the thousands of people I’d expected to see hanging out – maybe there were a couple hundred folks at best, some holdingContinue reading “My Perspective on Occupy Wall Street”

At last night’s Digital Media Marketing class, one of our guest lecturers, JB Rudelle, serial entrepreneur and current CEO of criteo.com, gave his perspective on startup business plans: they’re good for two things, self-assurance, and convincing other people to leave their comfy jobs and join your cause. This sentiment very much reflects the presentation givenContinue reading “Thoughts on Business Plans”

In a recent NYU Stern class (Economics of Social and Other Networks), we covered the economics of net neutrality, “a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers’ access to networks that participate in the internet” (wikipedia). The idea here is that users should have the freedom to decide whatContinue reading “The Virtue of Selfishness, and Net Neutrality”

Another excellent set of guest lecturers in Digital Media Marketing at NYU Stern this week: Eric Hippeau, a venture capitalist famous for investing in Yahoo and the Huffington Post amongst many others, and David Ko, current head of everything mobile at the gaming giant, Zynga.  The both of them dropped some great nuggets of wisdom on theContinue reading “Advice to Entrepreneurs from VC Eric Hippeau”

We recently had Jonah Peretti, a co-founder of The Huffington Post and creator of BuzzFeed, guest lecture in my Digital Media Marketing class at NYU Stern on viral marketing. What is Viral Marketing? The main focus of his presentation was on viral marketing.  Viral marketing describes a technique where people share stuff to create anContinue reading “Jonah Peretti & Viral Marketing”