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E-mail Zen
Speak of coincidences – or a pileup of pressure: over the weekend one topic came up (as it does in a recurring way) with a group of classmates, yesterday there was this article (The Anxiety of the...
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Week 34: Al Gore, Startups Sales to Enterprises & Founders vs Early Employees
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 4 (34), Spring quarter No bandwidth to say much more that you will find not one or two, but three beautiful graphs I drew this week with my two little hands below...
View ArticleThe Future That Should Be Here Now
I recently shared some thoughts on how surprisingly hard it has been to adjust to how mundane and bureaucratic everyday activities still can be in otherwise tech-advanced Silicon Valley, compared to...
View ArticleWeek 35: Virality, Freemium, Bitcoin & Asteroids
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 5 (35), Spring quarter Could be that my future co-alumni will look back at this week from the future as historic: the school came out to the public with news that...
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Week 36: Cascading Uncertainty, Sales Ethics, Biotech & Design
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 6 (36), Spring quarter Somehow the notes from this week are lighter – and not for the lack of activities, but rather a different kind. Somehow felt pointless to try...
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Week 37: Small World, Churn, Measuring Sales & Startup HR
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 7 (37), Spring quarter This week was completely overrun with two homework projects that refused to surrender even when groups of Sloans & MBAs spent hours...
View ArticleWeek 38: Condi, Internet Ads, Global Warming & Microbreweries
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 8 (38), Spring quarter This week kicked off with Maker Faire, the ultimate geek fest of robots, drones, noisy machines, 3D printers, lasers and eco-conscious...
View ArticleWeek 39: R, Regression Discontinuity, Bakeries and Sales VPs
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 9 (39), Spring quarter The Memorial Day week was the only one compressed to four long days this quarter, with the main theme on finalizing group projects. We...
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Week 40: The End of Class Notes
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 10 (40), Spring quarter Our last two days of five classes were almost all about presentations with a few wise final words from each professor. Pictured above is the...
View ArticleLast Sloan Class’ Spring Quarter
The below text was not born as a blog post for broader audiences originally, but as something I wrote for the class yearbook a month ago. Given that my final exam just slipped into a lockbox without...
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Sten @ a16z
August 1st marked the end of my 8+ year journey with Skype, after returning from an academic break at Stanford. As expected, the top incoming question following my departure tweet has been “what’s...
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First Decade of #SkypeMafia
On August 29th Skype is celebrating its birthday. As it did as a small European-rooted startup, so it does as a product in the portfolio of Microsoft. This time it is a round one, too: first 10 years....
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Computational Social Science
I have recently been intrigued about the evolving science of social network analysis (SNA) and the potential novel yet practical applications of it in growing businesses. So the timing of the 3rd...
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Ajujahi konkursi korraldajad küsisid, kas paari aasta taguse zhüriiliikmena oskaksin toona nähtu põhjal üldistada mõne soovituse tänastele äriideede nuputajatele. Panin kirja alljärgneva, ilmus...
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VC Funds Go Where Immigrants Come From
Thinking about the linkages between US and European tech investment and startup scenes ahead of the Slush conference in 10 days, I found an interesting paper: Deal or No Deal: The Growth of...
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On Bridges, Part 1: Realizing how Europe and Silicon Valley are drifting apart
This post is 1st of 3 in the series aimed at discussing ways Silicon Valley and European tech scenes could contribute to and gain more from each other. The series are an expansion of a short speech I...
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On Bridges, Part 2: Why Should Europe Care for Silicon Valley
This post is 2nd of 3 discussing ways Silicon Valley and European tech scene could get closer to each other. The series are an expansion of a short speech I gave at Slush conference in November 2013 –...
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On Bridges, Part 3: What Can Europe Give to Silicon Valley?
This is the final post of 3 contemplating how Silicon Valley and European tech scenes could get closer to each other. The series are an expansion of a short speech I gave at Slush conference in...
View ArticleSo… What Does an EIR Actually Do?
This has been a persistent question since I started my Entrepreneur in Residence gig at Andreessen Horowitz, and one that I have had to both figure out for myself and explain over and over again. If...
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