Musings | Making the Pivot: What's Next for PE_Feeds in 2014

Hello everyone and happy new year to you all! I hope the end of 2013 finished with a bang and that 2014 is off to a good start.

I spent the last 6 months learning about the startup, brand, advertising, and VC worlds at this agency, and while 2014 is going to be an interesting year in all of those industries (as well as private equity), I decided to take another pivot onto #FeedsWrites and catalog everything I've been watching, reading, and sharing.

Thus, behold...

THE NEW #FeedsWrites:

• #Startup_Feeds: A constantly-updating Flipboard Magazine which will hold all articles, info, and insight I find about the venture capital, startups, brand, advertising, mobile, and tech worlds. 
• #PE_Feeds: Another constantly-updating Flipboard Magazine which will hold (and continue to hold) the most important pieces on private equity that I believe you should be reading.
• #FeedsReads: An experiment that started last year, it's a curation of interesting and/or thought-provoking articles broken down by approximate length. You also can submit pieces to it!
• Writing Catalog: I've created and updated an About.me page that lists all of the pieces I have written as well as links to both Flipboard Magazines, #FeedsReads, and a few other surprises.
• What Will Continue: I plan to put together more Leveraged Stories, Musings, Conference Notes, and Industry Thoughts along the way. 

Expect some more surprises especially coming from the Twitter feed. It's a new year and a new day (and a new dawn?) for PE_Feeds, and there's a lot of great work to be done ahead.

Feel free to leave me comments, and happy new year to all of you once again!

#FeedsReads | What I'm Reading (Part I)

From time to time on the Twitter account, I'll tweet out some articles or pieces I'm reading regardless of their relation to private equity. I started tagging those tweets with the hashtag "#FeedsReads." Since we have this blog going, I'll share with you a post every now and then with about 5 or so articles I think you all would enjoy reading.

So, here they are: The first edition of the #FeedsReads posts!

1. NEW YORK TIMES: A heartbreaking story of Josh Miele, whose face was damaged by acid as a child but rose up to the happiest ending one could have.
2. CONSERVATION MAGAZINE: How stovemakers are trying to build the perfect wooden stove to help Third World countries and to combat climate change.
3. SALON: WWE legend Jake "The Snake" Roberts, his recovery from addiction, and his comeback to the ring. 
4. THE WASHINGTON POST: How cycling phenom Joe Dombrowski is leading the way towards cycling's future, marred in the scandal that is Lance Armstrong.
5. QUARTZ: How ethicist William MacAskill believes working on Wall Street in your initial career will do more good (because you'll make more money to be able to fund good-doing).
6. THE ATLANTIC: Ashley Fetters on the 15-year anniversary of the cult classic The Big Lebowski and how its laid-back world still abides, dude.
7. THE ATLANTIC: A powerful piece (and the source for my cyber-bullying trolling post) about the modern age of combating cyber-bullying. 

Let me know what you guys think of the pieces in the Comments section. 

- PE Feeds