Business school, tech, and living in France
9 Criteria for Investing in a business – from Fabrice Grinda
Dec 10th
Just saw a great presentation from Fabrice Grinda on his entrepreneurial experience. Here are his personal 9 criteria for investing:
- billion in revenues someday
- 90% of bs. model revenues, margins
- Seed round should require less than $0.5 M
- Scalable business
- Growing biz; rising tide raises all boats; market
- Can be one of top 3 players, could be niche, better to be #1 of course
- No risk of margin squeeze
- You know how execute in that space
- Only ideas that the investor likes personally
Quite interesting…
billion in revenues someday
90% of bs. model revenues, margins
Seed should be less than $0.5 M
Scalable business
Growing biz; rising tide etc; market
Can be one of top 3 players, could be niche, better to be #1 of course
No risk of margin squeeze
You know how execute in that space
Ideas that the investor likes
Google Chrome Browser on Apple OS X – Follow this for pre-release version
Dec 3rd
Google should be nearing their first beta version of their web browser named Chrome. If you’re impatient and just want to try it out now, you can download the latest “Early Access Release” here.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Mac
As of now, this version of the browser does not prompt you to download a new version when it is available.
Photo mosaic of HEC MBA Class of 2010
Nov 29th
I’m helping out with the HEC Visions of Leadership awards for next Wed., Dec. 2nd. After putting together a promo video,
I built this mosaic of the class of 2010 which is being honored.
Built a photo mosaic of the HEC Paris class of 2010 for the Visions of Leadership awards ceremony.
Apple Testing the New iPhone?
Nov 29th
It looks like Apple employees may be testing the new iPhone (version 3) already. 
This is not a new thing for Apple to start their field testing of an iPhone well in advance of their next release. Last year in October, the iPhone 3GS began to appear in the San Francisco area.
And again, let’s hope an iPhone for Verizon is on its way. That way, Katie can finally get one!
Back to blogging
Nov 28th
In the spirit of Matt Cutts’ 30 day challenges, I’m going to post to this blog once a week for the next 4-5 weeks (well, I’ll aim for 30 days worth of weeks).
Web Standards and Collaboration
May 9th
I recently wrote about web standards and how it facilitates collaboration within teams over at my R2i blog page. Attached to the post is the brown-bag presentation I gave a few weeks ago.
You can download the presentation on web standards here as well. I plan to follow up on this topic in more depth in the coming weeks.
Optimize Wordpress to Score an A with YSlow
Mar 11th
I finally took the time to setup Wordpress for myself this week. After I completed the installation (wow, that was fast!), I had the idea to see if I could optimize the delivery of the content. Yahoo! has created a Firefox plugin, YSlow, which reports on several different aspects of a web site’s delivery and structure, and rates each category on an A to F scale.I thought it might be a fun exercise to try to optimize Apache based on the feedback that YSlow provides to see how high a score I could get for this blog. So far, I’m at 93 (an A).
Here are the steps I took in my Apache configuration file.
- Enabled g-zip compression for text-html.
- Enabled Expires Headers for images in the /images folder.
- Turned off etags because I wasn’t using them.
Here are the configuration settings that I added to the .conf file:
<Location />
# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
# BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won't work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</Location>
<location /blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# Disable etags
FileETag none
</location>
Let me know if you have any other ideas on improving your YSlow score. Next step: optimize a DotNetNuke site using YSlow.