5 Lessons For Start-ups From 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'

A few people have asked me whether I think programming is a necessary skill for entrepreneurs (or anyone) to have in the future. When I was 14 years old, taking guitar lessons from Tom Pecora, he gave me that this-is-important-so-listen-well look, and told me something that stuck with me for life: “You need to learn to sing. Because if you don’t, you’re always going to be at the mercy of some asshole singer.”

I could’ve been a contender.

Defeat is a part of life. Yet surely so is victory. Perhaps nowhere more readily can we see the ups and downs of life than in sports, where you and your team are always measured by the last game you played. Take baseball, for example, in which an all-star year at the plate typically involves failing 67% of the time: one must learn to appreciate process rather than mere outcome.

Noam Wasserman ? author of the forthcoming, The Founder?s Dilemmas, and Janet Kraus are two Harvard School (HBS) experts on venture funding and start-ups. And in a February 17th interview, they focused their minds on three lessons that big companies can learn from start-ups and three ways they can change their management approach to benefit ...

There is a class of equities we call “cult stocks.” Roughly speaking, a cult stock is a high-growth concept stock, with an extraordinary degree of emotionally invested ownership. The classic cult stock typically has all of the following:

It was a monster rewind at theaters this weekend.  Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" returned to theaters in 3D while Bruce Campbell's horror classic "Evil Dead" scared its way back to the box office 30 years later, and both films delivered.

Growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee believed her life — witnessing public executions, studying the history of Kim Il-Sung with vigor — was totally normal. Lee had no idea that people were suffering, until one day when she walked past a train station.

“I beseech thee, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”  ~ Oliver Cromwell, to the General Assembly of Kirk It’s interesting when traders (and investors) blow up. Sometimes you can see it coming, based on telltale actions or statements.