Masonmyers - masonmyers.com - Mason Myers Blog
General Information:
Latest News:
Announcing Increased Investment in Appointment Plus — leading appointment scheduling software 27 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
Mason Myers Greybull Stewardship, my investment fund, is excited to announce that we have invested more capital into Appointment Plus, the leading business automation software specializing in appoint...
“VC Bargain”: Capital in Exchange for the ‘Duty to Sell Company’ 18 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
Mason Myers A post this summer from Jason Mendelson of the Foundry Group really caught my eye. It is about the explicit “VC Bargain” that an entrepreneur makes when taking an investment from a ventu...
Phantom Stock, Shadow Stock, or Virtual Stock — Employee Ownership (a series) 15 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
Admin An employee who “thinks like an owner” is the Holy Grail — having employees for owners — as we have discussed in other posts. Therefore, I have been writing a series of posts about tools that...
Joys of Ice Cream, Apple Pie, and Recurring Revenue 12 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
Mason Myers Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, once told a friend of mine that if Charlie were a young man, he would be “trying to find online recurring revenue businesses” — like m...
Business Buyers According to Warren Buffett: Competitors, Flippers, or Berkshire Hathaway! 8 Aug 2013 | 08:16 am
Mason Myers Warren Buffett with Rose Blumkin announcing the sale of a majority of the Nebraska Furniture Mart to Berkshire Hathaway in the early 1980′s. Whether to sell a business or accept outside ...
Great Tool for Business Decision Making in Uncertainty 30 Jul 2013 | 08:12 am
Mason Myers In business decision making, we never have as much information or certainty as we would like. The best business and investment minds know how to focus on the factors in a decision that a...
New Twist on Venture Capital with Better Risk-Adjusted Investment Returns 15 Jul 2013 | 02:30 am
Mason Myers A higher return investment can have a broad distribution of potential outcomes, as conveyed by this graph from Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital Management (the graph is from his book The M...
Binders Don’t Make Employees Safe 11 Jul 2013 | 11:12 am
Mason Myers I am all for employee safety, but paperwork in a binder doesn’t cushion any accident. This story may be an example about how worker’s comp is broken. I am not an expert on worker’s comp...
BCG Growth Share Matrix of Cash Cows, Dogs, and Stars 8 Jul 2013 | 10:35 am
Mason Myers Growth share matrix from BCG, developed in 1968. Older ideas, seen anew, can be helpful to business owners. In that spirit, I have highlighted Economies of Scale and Michael Porter’s Fi...
Built to Last or Built to Flip? 19 Jun 2013 | 10:49 pm
Mason Myers Is your business built to last or built to flip? No question influences your business strategy more than this one. There is no right answer — either strategy is fine. However, making s...
