Whizzing Winter Quarter
Already weeks into the final stretch I was comfortably settling on the fact that I’ve rushed past the opportunity of writing a reflective summary of Winter quarter (as I did with Summer and Autumn...
View ArticleWeek 34: Al Gore, Startups Sales to Enterprises & Founders vs Early Employees
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 4 (34), Spring quarter No bandwidth to say much more that you will find not one or two, but three beautiful graphs I drew this week with my two little hands below...
View ArticleThe Future That Should Be Here Now
I recently shared some thoughts on how surprisingly hard it has been to adjust to how mundane and bureaucratic everyday activities still can be in otherwise tech-advanced Silicon Valley, compared to...
View ArticleWeek 35: Virality, Freemium, Bitcoin & Asteroids
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 5 (35), Spring quarter Could be that my future co-alumni will look back at this week from the future as historic: the school came out to the public with news that...
View ArticleWeek 36: Cascading Uncertainty, Sales Ethics, Biotech & Design
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 6 (36), Spring quarter Somehow the notes from this week are lighter – and not for the lack of activities, but rather a different kind. Somehow felt pointless to try...
View ArticleWeek 37: Small World, Churn, Measuring Sales & Startup HR
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 7 (37), Spring quarter This week was completely overrun with two homework projects that refused to surrender even when groups of Sloans & MBAs spent hours...
View ArticleWeek 38: Condi, Internet Ads, Global Warming & Microbreweries
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 8 (38), Spring quarter This week kicked off with Maker Faire, the ultimate geek fest of robots, drones, noisy machines, 3D printers, lasers and eco-conscious...
View ArticleWeek 39: R, Regression Discontinuity, Bakeries and Sales VPs
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 9 (39), Spring quarter The Memorial Day week was the only one compressed to four long days this quarter, with the main theme on finalizing group projects. We...
View ArticleWeek 40: The End of Class Notes
Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 10 (40), Spring quarter Our last two days of five classes were almost all about presentations with a few wise final words from each professor. Pictured above is the...
View ArticleLast Sloan Class’ Spring Quarter
The below text was not born as a blog post for broader audiences originally, but as something I wrote for the class yearbook a month ago. Given that my final exam just slipped into a lockbox without...
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