December 2011
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Intelligent and Relevant Corporate Democracy
“Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration.”
It has always struck me as interesting that proper communication can effectively solve so many of the woes we experience, yet communication breakdowns and failures...
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The Evolution of Knowledge...
Do you remember those kids who were told not to touch the stove, but then you’d see them around school with a tube of Neosporin and a bandage covering half their hand?
Yeah, that was me. And apparently not much has changed.
I swim often at my local gym’s pool. My father is a fish and tends to frequent the spot. This particular morning was freezing, even by California standards. Being...
November 2011
3 posts
“Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it...”
– Anita Roddick
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How Would a Super Angel Define the Moniker?
My father, Scott Walchek, was kind enough to write a response to my post on the future of venture capital. The former post introduced the Super Angel and spoke about the thumbprint the Super Angel will leave on the current and future methods of venture investing. If you haven’t read my previous post, it may help to do so in order to provide context. Click here to read.
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Entertaining a Super Angel…The Future of VC
I have been hearing quite a stir about the future of Venture Capital.
For those of you who are not into finance, venture capital firms (VC’s) are companies that invest external money (pooled together from various sources) into an assortment of businesses at different stages of a company’s life cycle. Typically, VC’s invest money in exchange for a portion of ownership in said company. If the...
January 2009
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Follow the Dollar, Find the Thief
(Written in Jan 2009) Just yesterday, I was engaged in a deep discussion with my roommate regarding the state of the economy. I’ve been best friends with Jay for many years and though finance and economics are topics that capture my interest, an intense colloquium on the subject is rare between the two of us.
Jay kicked off the conversation with the following statement:
“I ...