This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

.” Martinez goes well beyond basic best practices: drawing from experience, he explains how he deals with meeting overload and why “performance consultants are golden” if you want to scale quickly. How you invest your time is just as important as how you invest your money Who’s #OpenToWork? Thanks very much for reading!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. Andersen Consulting always gains market share in down markets. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. Please don’t also confuse this with whether a VC should invest in a CEO who’s done it before – that’s a given. My advice: don’t. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. million.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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