In this article, Ben Horowitz describes a common approach to budgeting that nearly led to his former company’s demise. Does this look familiar to you?

1. Set goals that will enable us to grow
2. Break the goals down so that there is clear ownership and accountability for each goal by a specific team
3. Refine goals into measurable targets
4. Figure out how many new people are required to hit the targets
5. Estimate the cost of the effort
6. Benchmark against the industry
7. Make global optimizations
8. Execute

Drake – 0 To 100 / The Catch Up | Listen for free at bop.fm

“Real quick, whole squad on that real sh*t0 to 100, n***a, real quick”-Drake, “0 to 100/The Catch Up” For the audio version of this post click here. Drake – 0 To 100 / The Catch Up | Listen for free at bop.fm I am a giant advocate for technical founders running their own companies, but one consistent way that technical founders deeply harm their businesses is by screwing up the budgeting process.

Richard and Daniel Susskind: “The Future of the Professions” | Talks at Google

Recorded in London, October 2015 Richard and Daniel Susskind The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts About the book: This book predicts the decline of today’s professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them.

Indispensable Growth Frameworks from My Years at Facebook, Twitter and Wealthfront

Imagine you asked your finance team about how money enters and moves through your company, and they couldn’t tell you exactly where each dollar goes and is spent. You’d probably fire them all. So why aren’t a company’s users held to the same standard?

Fireside Chat with Travis Kalanick and Marc Benioff

Uber Everything: A Conversation about Technology, Innovation and the Future of Cities. Uber began as the answer to a simple question: “What if you could push a button and get a ride?” Today, more than five years and over 300 cities later, Uber has shifted the dialogue about transportation, and transformed the way people move around the world.

Distribution vs. Innovation

Clearly TiVo had an enormous channel opportunity. What if Comcast, Adelphia, Cox, and other large cable companies simply distributed TiVo to their customers? Wouldn’t that be a home run for TiVo and the cable companies – a new service that would delight customers with a massive new revenue stream to boot?