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A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right. Predic... See more

Byrne Hobart • How Many Trillion-Dollar Companies Should There Be?

The Entrepreneur is easy to recognize when encountered. This is the person who is afflicted by a monomaniacal fever, who cannot not be an entrepreneur. There are others, though, who do not fit the template, such as Louis Borders, who had left the game, or thought he had, until he was hit with a singular inspiration and could not not test the Big Id

Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

In a recent study, Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth, found that for every 5,000 employees, at least 250 will be true innovators and 25 will be innovators and great intrapreneurs (or companies of one) as well.

Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business

Sometimes developing your basic goods and making the most effective use of them is best accomplished when you can go beyond the crowd and identify something distinctive on your own—that’s when really special things can happen.

Laura Huang • Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

In 2013, Alex was a futurist for education in SAP. Tried to do some research on how the education industry was going to transform with new technology. This prompted Alex to start a company in the education space. Alex and his co-founder came up with a "billion dollar" startup idea to transform education by combining Coursera + Twitter into a new pr... See more

Josh Elman • Musical.ly's Alex Zhu on Igniting Viral Growth and Building a User Community | #ProductSF

In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance

Tyler Cowen • Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent

These companies pioneered a new style of “bottom-up” growth, where individual contributors seeded a product’s adoption within a customer company.

Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

The classifieds-based design created a poor product experience since the popular members—particularly women—would become overwhelmed with a large number of messages, and they would struggle to reply.