radical candour from a deep generalist
This is a great read and not only highlights good reason to focus on less but how and why to do them.
Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success.
Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities.
Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts.
Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place.
Great coverage from one of our SeedPlus Sessions.
Putting the Tech Back in FinTech – SeedPlus Session | Lets Talk Payments
This is a bummer but makes sense given the revenue numbers. I have to admit I use it mostly on the macOS since I don’t use my iPad Pro much anymore but when I did I relied heavily on Transmit for iOS. I also have coda but don’t do that much with it now.
I also moved over to WordPress hosting and use MarsEdit which means I don’t need server level type access.
Apple needs to sort out upgrade pricing and come up with a way for these type of app models to not just survive but thrive.
This is a good recap of previous predictions and some new predictions.
Retail apocalypse is real.
Dollar Shave Club was so overpaid for.
Walmart is the comeback kid!
Great post by Brad Feld pulling together the book info and 2 great videos.
I have the book on order from Amazon and will start reading right after this one.
I have been trying to kick of my own year thinking about how to implement some of this ASAP.
It started with my new notebook, tracking my day better and having clear goals.
Anyway – these videos are a great place to start!
https://transitapp.com/region#all-regions
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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018:
The tax holiday for repatriation creates one of the most active M&A environments of the past ten years. The repatriation holiday is part of the new tax plan. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before. The scale is enormous. Apple could repatriate $252B, Cisco $65B, Google $55B. That cash could be used for dividends, share buy backs and acquisitions. Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce. Microsoft buys Workday. Oracle buys ServiceNow. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B and $10B.
Will be interesting to track his list this year but right at the top is the most interesting thing – the new tax stuff and it’s effect on the M & A market.
I wonder what this will mean for Asia – since some of the money parked overseas is in Asia and it wasn’t getting used to by Asian companies. Will it be used to by companies on their home turf?
What will this mean to the M & A market in Asia?
I personally think M & A activity will increase across the board in 2018 but we shall see.
Hong Kong’s wealthy families prepare for generational shift:
The city’s property, ports, electricity and supermarket sectors, to name just a few, have been locked up by just eight families.
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