Strategic acquisitions are human capital investments. Conventional measures often fall short to forecast an individual’s or team’s correlation to predict future …
Venture Capital and the descent into irrelevance
The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. Elemental finance: you assume the amount of risk suitable for an expected payoff. …
Human capital assessments — the symptom or the disease
The drive to evaluate operations and to contain costs is mistakenly applied as an operational issue across the board. Too often a …
Notes from Boston: the state of US venture capital
This was originally posted in the nowEurope, where I post as a contributor. nowEurope reported on technology innovation in Central Europe Centrope …
Innovation Boston and Budapest, or Dirty Water and the Blue Danube
13 years offers a great opportunity to revisit most relationships. At first blush, Boston and Budapest seem to have little to …
Why Startups Should ALWAYS Compromise When Hiring? — Never!
Reading a blog on the venture capital website Start Up Hire called: Should Startups Compromise When Hiring? I found a reference …
The VC’s missing formula: human capital discounted cash flow
Accounting assigns of assets and liabilities and financial management’s current or pro forma valuation both rely on art and interpretation more …