Comments on: A capital framework for evaluating career choices http://www.vinaysethmohta.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-capital-framework-for-evaluating-career-choices/ Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: vinaysethmohta http://www.vinaysethmohta.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-capital-framework-for-evaluating-career-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-6 vinaysethmohta Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:45:30 +0000 http://www.vinaysethmohta.com/blog/?p=13#comment-6 Looked through Marc Andreessen's excellent posts. His suggestion of thinking of your career as a portfolio and as each choice carrying its own risks and rewards makes sense and is a good place to start as one thinks at a high-level of the various choices worth pursuing. Nivi's criteria similarly are appropriate to begin thinking about what's next. The capital framework described here is specifically useful once you're down to a collection of choices and want to compute the risk/reward/value of each one so that you can "measure" / compare them against each other in a meaningful way. Looked through Marc Andreessen’s excellent posts. His suggestion of thinking of your career as a portfolio and as each choice carrying its own risks and rewards makes sense and is a good place to start as one thinks at a high-level of the various choices worth pursuing. Nivi’s criteria similarly are appropriate to begin thinking about what’s next.

The capital framework described here is specifically useful once you’re down to a collection of choices and want to compute the risk/reward/value of each one so that you can “measure” / compare them against each other in a meaningful way.

]]> By: Nivi http://www.vinaysethmohta.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-capital-framework-for-evaluating-career-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Nivi Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:01:17 +0000 http://www.vinaysethmohta.com/blog/?p=13#comment-4 My criteria: Is the vision gigantic? Do I have an illogical passion for the vision? Am I surrounded by brilliant people who execute? Everything else is secondary. I also recommend Marc Andreessen's career advice: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/09/the-pmarca-gu-1.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-guid.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-gu-1.html My criteria:

Is the vision gigantic?

Do I have an illogical passion for the vision?

Am I surrounded by brilliant people who execute?

Everything else is secondary.

I also recommend Marc Andreessen’s career advice:

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/09/the-pmarca-gu-1.html

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-guid.html

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-gu-1.html

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