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Always happy, never satisfied

Once upon a time at a dinner party, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were asked to write on a napkin, the single most important driver of their success.  They thought for a moment, wrote their answers separately, and revealed their response simultaneously. “Focus” was the word on both napkins. Fantastic. The secret is out. Time …

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New career announcement! Finding structure through se...

Exciting announcement: I will teach a First Principles of Investing course for On Deck Investing (ODI) and coach ambitious, entrepreneurial learners 1-on-1 this fall! This is the tale of how everything serendipitously came together and where I plan to go from here. To begin, you should know that I spend a lot of time writing. …

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david cohen

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Be YOUR hammer and look for YOUR nail

One of my worst moments as a start-up CEO was when I lost $400,000. The short of it is that a customer had sent us the money, but my company was too small to receive such a large payment. And due to technical reasons, our payment processor could not refund him. In a kafkaesque twist, …