A simple loss of innocence or something more? The restructuring of Google in August 2015 was a major tech shakeup, where a new parent company ‘Alphabet’ was set up and Google became one of the seven companies working under it. Apart from Google, the Alphabet umbrella covers Google Ventures, Calico, Nest , Google Capital, Fiber […]
Groupon an e-commerce company provides daily deals has announced on Tuesday to layoff approximately 1,100 positions and will shut operations in 7 countries.
The U.S. celebrity machine thrives on a set-em-up-and-knock-em-down cycle so it’s not surprising that the latest film about Steve Jobs is highly negative. However, perseverating on Jobs’s problematic personal relationships is completely missing the point. CEO’s that treat people like crap are dime-a-dozen. There was nothing unique about Jobs’s management style. What was unique about […]
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In the spring of 2014, after a decade of visa problems, the Hassan family moved out of its spacious house in Karachi, Pakistan, to an apartment in Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago near O’Hare International Airport. They were a family of eight, two parents, and six kids, jammed into a three-bedroom space. Money was tight […]
In January, I participated in the Chicago Booth Private Equity and Venture Capital Lab, where I had the opportunity to work with the great team at Second Century Ventures, a consumer and SMB tech focused VC based in Chicago, for 6 months. Having spent a considerable amount of time talking to entrepreneurs, sourcing deals, conducting due […]
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who helped turn the trendy messaging startup into a global town square, is stepping down amid criticism over the company’s disappointing financial performance and a recent stock slide. Co-founder Jack Dorsey, who served as CEO during Twitter’s early years, will temporarily take the reins while the San Francisco company looks for […]
It is quite common for the founders to split equity in their company early on in the process and an even-split is the common scenario seen in most of them. Every startup in the world faces “ups and downs” due to equity sharing issues. One thing which creates a big difference between good Startups and ordinary Startups […]