I’m giving a talk this weekend at Limmud NY and then in a month at Limmud FSU on "Investment Banking in the Marriage Market: Find Your Dream Spouse without the Drama". In this presentation, I take the same standard process that works for sales, raising capital, and sourcing deals, and apply it [...continue reading]
> Personal > Dating and MarriageSurprise gift for your spouse or partner
As part of joining ff, I’ve moved as much of my personal technology stack over to our portfolio companies as possible. I switched from Phonetag.com to Phone.com for managing my personal telephony. One of the useful features of Phone.com is that I can customize an unlimited number of [...continue reading]
Bubble Sort for Dating
HBO is now producing TV shows about sleazy VC dating habits, and the New York Times, clearly responding to the internet’s desire for quality journalism, just ran a piece on Silicon Valley’s most eligible bachelors (although 3 are already paired up, according to Betabeat). Given how [...continue reading]
Looks Do Matter
Daniel Akst has a fascinating piece on how much, and how, Looks do matter. The best observation: Although looks in mating still matter much more to men than to women, the importance of appearance appears to be rising on both sides of the gender divide. In a fascinating cross-generational study of [...continue reading]
Five Rules for Balancing Business and Friendship
From RLI Corp. Vice President, Executive Products Group, A. Q. "Skip" Orza: 1. Never renege on your handshake. Multimillion-dollar, complex deals are sealed by handshakes or verbal agreements on the phone, and you live by them. If you don't honor them on paper afterward, you'll lose longstanding [...continue reading]
What's love worth? Try $100k
Money Magazine reports that a happy marriage is worth $100k /year.After 2 years of marriage, I can only say this is a ridiculously low estimate of the value of a spouse.Happy Valentine's Day! [...continue reading]
The Keys to Building Trust
The Keys to Building TrustTrust can be hard to gain and easy to lose. In all matters of trust, actions always speak louder than words, says Stever Robbins.http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4553&t=srobbins [...continue reading]
