Posts by: Aleks Buterman

Evolution of VC Models, Part 2

If there's one unassailable maxim in start up investing, it is that one invests in team first, everything else second.  One of the major points of vetting a potential team is whether they've been through the start up cycle before, with more…

Platform Building Thoughts

Ran across a post from someone who is pondering platform building.  As someone who has been building platforms for a while, I figured I should provide some feedback!There are very few standards in this area.  Few can even agree on what a…

Numbers Deceive Only Those Who Want To Be Deceived

Calculating Total Cost of Ownership (or TCO for short) is something that's familiar to those of us who've been through the large organization planning processes.  Yet, there is no shortage of entrepreneurs that believe they can move mountains with nothing more than…

Evolution of VC Business Models

This week at the Funding Post event in NYC one of the panel discussions focused on how VC model is going to evolve over the next several years.  There were several interesting points made that I would love to get this blog's…

Discipline Is Not a Curse

For those of us in the Enterprise Architecture, impressing the value of discipline on the world that is incentivized to ignore it, is par for the course.  Whether it's due to great expectations, unrealistic timelines, lack of coherent planning, or all of…

Discipline Is Not a Curse

For those of us in the Enterprise Architecture, impressing the value of discipline on the world that is incentivized to ignore it, is par for the course.  Whether it's due to great expectations, unrealistic timelines, lack of coherent planning, or all of…

Discipline Is Not a Curse

For those of us in the Enterprise Architecture, impressing the value of discipline on the world that is incentivized to ignore it, is par for the course.  Whether it's due to great expectations, unrealistic timelines, lack of coherent planning, or all of…

Emerging from Hibernation

It's been 9 months since our last post.  That doesn't mean that we're no longer here, or that we're not thinking about these topics, or that we don't have anything more to say - those of you who know me realize that…

Emerging from Hibernation

It's been 9 months since our last post.  That doesn't mean that we're no longer here, or that we're not thinking about these topics, or that we don't have anything more to say - those of you who know me realize that…
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