Posts Tagged ‘University of Chicago’

  • Chicago: Hotbed of Employment Innovation
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

    One of the first things I thought of when we started Hyde Park Angels was not to mimic Silicon Valley.  No other area can be [...]

  • What To Do In Case of Nuclear War
    Posted by on April 12th, 2013 at 10:03 am, Comments: 0

    When I was growing up, I lived through the Cold War.  I recall walking to grade school and wondering if this was going to be [...]

  • Is An Acquisition a Failure?
    Posted by on April 3rd, 2013 at 8:32 am, Comments: 0

    This post is intriguing because a person that created a company considers the acquisition of his company a failure.   Their company was unique, because [...]

  • Ubering At The Doctor’s Office
    Posted by on March 24th, 2013 at 12:49 pm, Comments: 0

    The following is a guest post by Jake Plummer.  I have known Jake since he became affiliated with Hyde Park Angels. Jake’s involved in the [...]

  • When “Nudge” Goes Bad
    Posted by on March 3rd, 2013 at 9:40 am, Comments: 0

    Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein wrote a book called Nudge.  It’s based on the economic research behavioral economists have done over the past ten years. [...]

  • Microeconomics Monday-Efficiency vs Equity
    Posted by on February 11th, 2013 at 7:43 am, Comments: 0

    Last in the series. The entire series covers my Microeconomics course that I took while getting an MBA at the University of Chicago.  Obviously, it’s [...]

  • Can You Build A StartUp Ecosystem? 5 Things You Have to Have
    Posted by on February 2nd, 2013 at 10:02 am, Comments: 0

    A lot of politicians are interested in pursuing startup ecosystems.  When they talk about it, everyone agrees that it’s a good idea.  Who can be [...]

  • Who Controls Your Reputation?
    Posted by on December 29th, 2012 at 8:36 am, Comments: 0

    When I was taking classes at the University of Chicago for my MBA there were a lot of interesting classes. Of course, the regimental numbers [...]

  • Execution Is A Key To Success
    Posted by on December 4th, 2012 at 10:11 am, Comments: 0

    Ideas are great.  Ideas germinate into businesses.  But ideas are just ideas until a person takes it and actually makes something.  No ideais worth anything [...]

  • Microeconomics Monday-Cost Curves and Concepts
    Posted by on December 3rd, 2012 at 7:06 am, Comments: 0

    The beauty of microeconomics is it models the economics of the firm. Economics at that level isn’t some pie in the sky science. It’s a [...]

  • Best B Schools-Should You Go?
    Posted by on November 18th, 2012 at 9:56 am, Comments: 0

    The list of the best B schools just came out.  My alma mater, ChicagoBooth, came out number one.  It’s the second year in a row [...]

  • New Feature on Points and Figures
    Posted by on November 11th, 2012 at 8:17 am, Comments: 0

    Content is king we are told.  One of the toughest things about blogging is searching for good content, and then writing about it in a [...]

  • New Angel Group in Chicago-and Nation
    Posted by on November 9th, 2012 at 8:15 am, Comments: 0

    In 2006, a group of my fellow UChicago MBA students and I began forming the plans for an angel group in Chicago.  It had been [...]

  • Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Coase!!
    Posted by on December 29th, 2010 at 10:14 am, Comments: 0

    If you don’t know who Ronald Coase is, you should.  He wrote two of the seminal, influential papers in economics.  The Nature of the Firm [...]

  • University of Chicago Business Forecast
    Posted by on December 1st, 2010 at 5:08 pm, Comments: 0

    Yesterday was the University of Chicago Business Forecast.  It is always interesting.  They do it in Chicago, New York, LA, Singapore and London.  If you [...]

  • Inflation is Baked In The Cake
    Posted by on October 5th, 2010 at 7:55 am, Comments: 0

    One domino down, one more to go this week. The Bank of Japan as expected set their interest rate to almost zero and paved the [...]

  • Worth Remembering
    Posted by on July 27th, 2010 at 2:35 pm, Comments: 0

    This Youtube.com video has been emailed around. It is worth reminding ourselves how great free market capitalism is. Milton Friedman says it very succinctly in [...]

  • YOY
    Posted by on July 19th, 2010 at 4:26 pm, Comments: 0

    Reporters and analysts always seem to quote year over year(YOY) numbers.   Sometimes numbers make sense, and sometimes they don’t.  For example, if I am [...]