I just came across a great article in the New York Times. A few decades ago, economics mattered … Continuer la lecture de « Making economics relevant again »

With the growth of online advertising, many businesses are evolving from paid business models to free ad supported … Continuer la lecture de « Free Sex 🙂 »

I am an economist by formation and at heart if not by trade and I am appalled by … Continuer la lecture de « Policy recommendation for the candidates »

Paul Graham wrote these two interesting articles on the topic: How to Fund a Startup The Equity Equation

Many of you have written asking how you should value your startup during the fund raising process. There … Continuer la lecture de « Startup Valuations »

The phenomenal video “Here comes another bubble” by the Richter Scales (see: http://www.fabricegrinda.com/?p=274) inspired this great video on … Continuer la lecture de « Wall Street Meltdown »

Somehow all my Princeton friends started taking personality tests a week ago to see if they had changed … Continuer la lecture de « Fun with personality types »

The road to hell is paved with good intentions! In public policy above all else, I have often … Continuer la lecture de « The power of unintended consequences »

The mother of an OLX employee called 911 in Argentina to report a robbery in progress across her … Continuer la lecture de « Be grateful you live in the US! »

While on the topic of hiring, my friend Auren just wrote a great article as to why great … Continuer la lecture de « The power of great people (why “good enough” won’t cut it) »

A lot has been written about the science of hiring: finding candidates through referrals, having multiple interviewers, getting … Continuer la lecture de « The art of hiring »

A few months ago I described the “Grinda Hypothesis” where I posited that social networks would be hard … Continuer la lecture de « Google’s Loss is Murdoch’s Gain »

I would very much like the deal to go through and actually succeed! For the sake of innovation, … Continuer la lecture de « My take on the Microsoft – Yahoo deal »

Virgil Griffith analyzed the top 10 books listed on Facebook by students in a college versus the average … Continuer la lecture de « Books that make you dumb 🙂 »

We were evaluating webcams for doing video conferences over Skype between the OLX New York & Argentina offices … Continuer la lecture de « The Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 and Orbit AF are great webcams »