There's no typical series of Start Up growth stages. (more)

a very interesting business metric

Matt Zeigler: Joe Pine is a Framework Alchemist. Do you know Joe Pine? He's the author of The Experience Economy and The Transformation Economy, a Strategic Horizons advisor, and one of the most thoughtful observers of how value actually gets created in the modern economy. (more)

Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers,[2][3] and a logistician is a professional working in the field of logistics management. Logistics management is a component that holds the supply chain together.[3] The resources managed in logistics include physical goods such as materials, equipment, and foodstuffs, and also intangible items such as time and information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics (more)

A hostile takeover allows a bidder to take over a target company whose management is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover. (M-and-A) The party who initiates a hostile takeover bid approaches the shareholders directly, as opposed to seeking approval from officers or directors of the company.[3] A takeover is considered hostile if the target company's board rejects the offer, and if the bidder continues to pursue it, or the bidder makes the offer directly after having announced its firm intention to make an offer. Development of the hostile takeover is attributed to Louis Wolfson.[4] An SEC working paper tracking hostile takeovers from 1965 to 2013 found that such deals accounted for about 40% of total M&A activity in the late 1960s but declined to around 5% by 2013, making them a small share of overall takeover activity by the 2000s.[5][a] Additionally, a study of M&A transactions from 1990-2005 found that approximately 24% of hostile takeovers succeed.

In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies. These bonds have a higher risk of default or other adverse credit events but offer higher yields than investment-grade bonds to compensate for the increased risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-yield_debt (more)

Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. was an American multinational investment bank that was forced into bankruptcy in 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by senior executive Mike Milken. At its height, it was a Bulge Bracket bank, as the fifth-largest investment bank in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Burnham_Lambert

Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets.[2][3][1] As of 2025, the company had $840 billion of assets under management, including $392 billion invested in credit, including mezzanine capital, hedge funds, non-performing loans, and collateralized loan obligations, $99 billion invested in [[private equity], and $46.2 billion invested in real assets, which includes real estate and infrastructure. The company invests money on behalf of pension funds, financial endowments, and sovereign wealth funds, as well as other institutional and individual investors.[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management (more)

Simon Willison: My review of Claude Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name. Today on the Anthropic blog: Claude can now create and edit files: (more)

video streaming platform

Jonny Miller: The Best Decision-Making Is Emotional. In my work as an executive coach... (more)

For one week in January 2012, data scientists skewed what almost 700,000 FaceBook users saw when they logged into its service. Some people were shown content with a preponderance of happy and positive words; some were shown content analyzed as sadder than average. And when the week was over, these manipulated users were more likely to post either especially positive or negative words themselves... The effect the study documents is very small, as little as one-tenth of a percent of an observed change... when researchers reduced the appearance of either positive or negative sentiments in people’s News Feeds—when the feeds just got generally less emotional—those people stopped writing so many words on Facebook... Susan Fiske had earlier conveyed to The Atlantic that the experiment was IRB-approved. “I was concerned,” Fiske told The Atlantic on Saturday, “until I queried the authors and they said their local institutional review board had approved it—and apparently on the grounds that Facebook apparently manipulates people's News Feeds all the time.” (more)

Cedric Chin: ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well. Instead of withholding judgment until an exhaustive search for data is complete, I will force myself to make a tentative forecast based on the information available, and then systematically tear it apart, using the insights gained to guide my search. The only problem with it is that it doesn’t seem to work that well. (more)

Book by Philip Tetlock

Zvi Mowshowitz: The $140,000 Question. There was a no good, quite bad article by Michael Green that went viral. (2025-11-23) Green Poverty Line Is A Lie (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education Roundup #5. Bullying: Why do those who defend themselves against bullies so often get in more trouble than bullies? This is also true in other contexts but especially true in school. (more)

Sports activity that is actively managed, esp by 3rd parties, see esp Youth Sports run by adults, vs Pick-up Games.

a bug up my butt: is it the passive Consumerism of the Spectacle? The arbitrary yet emotionally-intensive Group Identification (Tribalism) ("my team can beat your team") (Pavlovian training for "my country can beat your country"?)? The pretense of College Sports and Olympics events as involving Amateur-s? (more)

Author of Free-Range Kids

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education Roundup #7 (more)