So goes the thesis of Joost Schreve, the former head of mobile for TripAdvisor, who left the company last November and started his own startup, KimKim, in December.
It's something we've spent a lot of time on hopefully it can be part of the thesis going forward.
It was around this time last year that I was preparing to defend my doctoral thesis, going to job interviews, presenting at conferences, and trying to decide on a career path that I could embark on.
In terms of investment thesis going forward, DN Capital believes there is still a lot of room to invest in marketplaces and software, the areas of tech where the firm cut its teeth.
I was going into my thesis year, and Collier Schorr said, "If you don't do something interesting that challenges you, you're never going to feel like an artist".
He said it in a jokey way, but it wasn't a joke; Foreign Bodies is a thorough-going thesis, packed with information, interviews and, most importantly, argument.
If you're going to develop a thesis about Thomas Hardy inside a book about fate, for example, you need at least to have the intellectual hardware of Howard Jacobson in Peeping Tom.
Once you've created your countdown list, you may realize that writing your thesis is going to take longer than you thought.
An example of a good thesis statement, going back to the paper on tuberculosis, would be "Tuberculosis is a widespread disease that affects millions of people worldwide every year.
You should meet with your supervisor (and thesis adviser, if different from your supervisor) to discuss exactly what should go into your thesis.
Very occasionally the balance between dramatic action and social thesis goes wobbly.
