How Amazon Buying Whole Foods Could Transform Grocery Shopping

Many business stories from the popular press appear to me as if they were written by someone without a basic understanding of business.  Wired got it mostly right when describing the news that Amazon bought Whole Foods. The fact is, the merge happened, and people are speculating.  I look at it a from the view […]

Let’s play startup

When Y Combinator launched in 2005, they flipped investing criteria on its head, making micro bets on young, inexperienced kids, instead of funding people with proven track records. Now their venture fund has a portfolio of winners including Dropbox, Zenefits, Airbnb, and Stripe. And next year they’re thinking a little bigger In 2018 they’ll accept […]