Business 101 for startups by Fred Wilson
I’m taking a turn on MBA Mondays today. We are moving past the concepts of interest and time value of money and moving into the world of corporations. Today, I’d like to talk about what kinds of entities you might encounter in the world of business.
First off, you don’t have to incorporate to be in…
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It’s time for MBA Mondays again. For the third week in a row, the topic of the post has been suggested by a reader. Last week, Elia Freedman wrote:
“A suggestion for your next post. The logical follow-on is to explain the second half of the TVM (time value of money), which is compounding interest.”…
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It’s Monday, time for MBA Mondays.
Last week, I posted about The Present Value Of Future Cash Flows and in the comments Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote:
That being said, before even covering NPV, I would have first talked about the time value of money. To me, time value of…
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My friend Pravin sent me an email last week after my “How To Calculate A Return On Investment” post. He said:
I wish there was a class that I could take that would teach me how to properly research stocks/companies for investment purposes and how that could be made into a private tutoring business.…
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Originally published Jan 25 2010.
The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local real estate, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an entrepreneur we’ve gotten to know who delivers products to the market that we use and love. The Gotham…
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