Every once in a while I sneak the odd book review into my blog, and this time the selection is Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Duber. This is not exactly a timely review; the book was published in
This quip popped into my mind the other day and, hoping to coin a phrase, I decided to blog on it. Sadly however, a few others seem to have beaten me to the punch. (Nothing like a bit of gallows humor to cheers us up.) * If 401Ks are Now 201Ks,
I was over on corporate blogging expert Debbie Weil's blog today where she had a light-hearted post on ElfYourself, a site which serves but one simple purpose: upload a photo and turn yourself into an Elf. With budding holiday spirit, I was about to give it a try,
Private Equity
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Check out this post by Gawker Media's Nick Denton entitled A 2009 Internet Media Plan. It's a publisher's wake-up call and the Sequoia RIP Good Times presentation rolled together, all in one. Valleywag, itself a Gawker property, entitled its story about the post Publishers
Thanks to a Google Alert I stumbled into this interesting post entitled The Content Imperative: Unlearning the Relational Model in another CEO blog, that of Joel Amoussou of Montreal-based Efasoft. Says Joel: relational data * Content is created to be human readable * Content can be rendered in multiple presentation formats such
Silicon Valley
I found an interesting article in Forbes the other day entitled The Silicon Lining / Why the Bust is Good for Silicon Valley and I thought I'd discuss it a bit here. Let's start with this excerpt with some interesting IPO-related stats: ... Since 2002, there have been
I've blogged once before about email-sniffing Tacit Software and its founder (and my old boss) David Gilmour. So I was a bit saddened to read this story on VentureBeat entitled Oracle Scoops Up Tacit's Intellectual Property. Now, happily, I lack personal experience in such matters, but
I heard this soundbite today (pronounced "web two dot over") as Silicon Valley's response to the crisis in the financial markets, declining consumer spending, and the imminent recession. In many ways, I think it's true. * Many of the previously-unconstrained-by-revenue web 2.0 startups are
Nova Spivack, founder and (I think) CEO of Radar Networks / Twine (see prior post here), entrepreneur, blogger, and grandson of management legend Peter Drucker, is often described as head salesperson for the semantic web / web 3.0. Here is the video of Nova giving a presentation on the semantic web
Thanks to Alex Moissis for passing along a link to the following presentation in a comment on my previous post (Nobody Knows) on the current financial crisis. I thought the presentation was so good, so insightful, and so statistics-packed, that I'd share it here. And lest I accidentally
I'm seeing increasing blogosphere references to Intrade prediction markets, so I thought I'd cruise over to intrade.com and have look. I first heard of the idea of using prediction markets in business over a decade ago from amateur economist and Business Objects co-worker Timo Elliott.
