Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Jul 21, 2014

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion.

How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Oct 21, 2014

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Although many business executives sat through one, or perhaps several, courses in economics while in school, most probably took away little more than the supply and demand graphs to which they were introduced early in their first course.

What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Mar 2, 2014

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Buffett’s annual letter: What you can learn from my real estate investments

In an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming shareholder letter, Warren Buffett looks back at a pair of real estate purchases and the lessons they offer for equity investors. FORTUNE — “Investment is…

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Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Nov 13, 2014

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The fascinating life of Penny Pritzker (so far)

As she makes the rounds on her first official visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker takes special note of the airy, open-plan offices at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif.

The fascinating life of Penny Pritzker (so far)

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Mar 24, 2014

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Keith Rabois on the Role of a COO, How to Hire and Why Transparency Matters

Keith Rabois has helped build some of the most important companies in Silicon Valley including PayPal, LinkedIn and Square.

Keith Rabois on the Role of a COO, How to Hire and Why Transparency Matters

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Oct 15, 2014

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Don’t Ask Google’s Eric Schmidt How to Achieve “Work-Life Balance”

Google is daring, creative, and by multiple accounts an enviable place to work — but is the way it’s run a model for other companies to follow? After all, quintessentially Googley practices like giving people free…

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Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

May 28, 2014

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Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong

Tune into any cable network stock market channel and the airwaves resonate with one consistent theme: SaaS companies are simply too expensive. In fact, we might even be in a bubble!

Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Oct 21, 2014

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Is Capturing Carbon from the Air Practical?

Physicist Peter Eisenberger had expected colleagues to react to his idea with skepticism. He was claiming, after all, to have invented a machine that could clean the atmosphere of its excess carbon dioxide, making the gas into fuel or storing it…

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Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Apr 14, 2014

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How Nigeria’s economy grew by 89% overnight

ON SATURDAY, April 5th, South Africa was Africa’s largest economy. The IMF put its GDP at $354 billion last year, well ahead of its closest rival for the crown, Nigeria. By Sunday afternoon that had changed.

How Nigeria’s economy grew by 89% overnight

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Jun 17, 2014

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I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million. Here’s How I Did It.

I sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time. Selling the company, Perfect Audience, to Marin Software took six months of writing carefully worded emails, meeting secretly in cafés, and pacing…

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