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VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth — seems like a buying opportunity to me, it is hard to imagine a better systems software CEO than Paul Maritz. Read more..Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Phil Howard - Organic Industry — nice charts, the industry is way more consolidated than I realized. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Read more..Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Ankur Jain: âI Would Like To Address My Dadâs Characterâ Read more..Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
OK Yahoo could have been a Microsoft division, all of Microsoft’s internet ambitions would have been handed over to them, they would have been able to run semi-autonomously. Or they can ... Read more..Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve had it with 1800flowers, with proflowers, with marthastewart’s site. In the past year I’ve ordered flowers from each and they have all resulted in various disasters — flowers ... Read more..Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Ask The Readers: How Do You Recession-Proof Your Career? — some ideas from others. In my first real job, a wise mentor who had lived through recessions and layoffs gave me ... Read more..Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
TechForward: Guaranteed Buybacks for Consumer Electronics — via Marginal Revolution. Ideal for someone like me who surfs the wave of the latest technology. Read more..Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Chris discusses The Siren Song of Local Reviews as does Andy. Both these guys have a lot of hard-won scars from their experiences. It is a continually ... Read more..Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A Sack of Seattle: Judy’s Book lesson #1: markets win — nice post from Andy — a large growing market trumps all Read more..Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Marginal Revolution: No More Making Fun of Canadian Money. Wow. The world has voted on the US economy and government policies. Read more..Monday, September 3rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I don’t know what R-67 is, but I’ve seen this group — Consumers Against Higher Insurance Rates — running numerous inflammatory ads against it. Google reveals that one of ... Read more..Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Big Picture | Great Market Quotes — I especially like John Maynard Keynes — “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” and Kin Hubbard — “It ... Read more..Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
It is nice to think that there is some field out there in which I can still be productive… blog.pmarca.com: Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data # This peak in ... Read more..Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
College grads see higher starting salaries this year - Jul. 12, 2007 via The Big Picture. Engineering rules yet again. Might be a tortoise and hare thing tho, ... Read more..Monday, June 25th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters In honor of Andy Rachleff, formerly of Benchmark Capital, who crystallized this formulation for me, let me present ... Read more..Sunday, June 17th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »
The Big Picture | Cognitive Biases: A Short List — great list of the ways we screw up decisions marca’s view on the best scifi of the decade Larry’s recommended security blogs EDSBS’s ... Read more..Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Big Picture | How to Fail As a Trader in 10 Easy Steps — “9. Trade with your emotions”. These probably apply to any investment business Ten most ... Read more..Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
BBC NEWS | Business | US ‘no longer technology king’ … and the new king is … Denmark??? I can accept the US losing its lead but…Denmark??? Did Bluetooth wipe ... Read more..Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
WhoseTube? Viacom Sues Google Over Video Clips - New York Times — one has to wonder why this is limited to video material. If I am the owner of ... Read more..Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
I really like this observation — Brand Autopsy: A Vital Jack Welch Quote âToo often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in ... Read more..Sunday, February 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Via Rahul Pathak, Boyd’s Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration. Great pithy maxim. Doesn’t apply so well to heart surgery or parachuting, but really ... Read more..Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
An Ink Price War Looms | Gadgetopia — awesome. Great for consumers. I’ll certainly look at a Kodak printer as a result. Read more..Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
it is hard to feel sympathy for the industry when they are actively working both ends of the revenue stream at once — whacking users to get us to pay ... Read more..Monday, December 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Boy UPS let us down this week. We had perishable food shipped Friday in their approved containers to us for Saturday delivery. Saturday came and went, no packages. ... Read more..Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A Sack of Seattle: The meeting that led to Judy’s Book insights — Andy is doing a great job of thinking out loud about his business. this is just ... Read more..