Cybersecurity Early Stage Investing – Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

By guest author Anik Bose

IT Management has become more common as technology plays a larger role in business. At BGV, we have seen a 2X+ growth in Cybersecurity early stage deal. We believe that this deluge is driven by a combination of real facts and hype. A few data points:

• According to a June 2014 report from the Center of Strategic Studies, crime involving computers and networks has cost the world economy $445 billion annually. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: World Cup 2014

The World Cup 2014 is coming to an exciting close. As I had predicted, Brazil will be playing Germany in the semi final on Wednesday. But with Neymar out of the Brazilian team, the equation has changed somewhat. Fingers crossed! For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: World Cup Fever

This world cup has seen some of the most unpredictable outcomes, upsetting most predictions including mine. Spain, the defending champion is out. England, Italy, and Portugal have been eliminated. Pleasant surprise is that the US team has made it to the pre-quarter finals. This Wall Street Journal piece looks at some outstanding performances so far. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Don’t Fail Quickly, Succeed Quickly!

By guest author Greg Brandeau, co-author of Collective Genius

There is a mantra in Silicon Valley, fail quickly, which means, in short, that you realize quickly that what you hoped to do just isn’t going to work and move on. While fail quickly is a provocative phrase, I think it downplays what companies should be doing which is to experiment quickly, which my co-authors and I call creative agility.

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Catching Up On Readings: Disruptive Innovation

This week’s New Yorker carries Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s sharp critique of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s 1997 book the Innovator’s Dilemma, which popularized the idea of disruption. The critique relooks at the case studies in the book. An interesting read! For this week’s posts, click the paragraph links.

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Catching Up On Readings: E3 2014

This feature on Guardian covers the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2014 in Los Angeles this week where games took the center stage. For this week’s posts, click the paragraph links.

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World Cup Soccer 2014: Predictions

I know I am playing a very dangerous game here, but let’s have some fun with the predictions, anyway …

Here are mine, see if you agree with them, and feel free to add yours!

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Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2014

This feature on Mashable looks at the latest innovations at the Apple Worldwide Developers conference this year including health-tracking and smart home initiatives, a slew of new features like third-party keyboards, and even a new programming language. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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