May 15, 2007
New all-time bestsellers list of "DVD Sleepers & Keepers" from Amazon is interesting list. Shows how many fringe (to my way of thinking) products aren't in the long tail at all, and are actually top of the DVD pops. Call...
The current National Geographic has a fascinating feature on capitalism in China's boomtowns, cities like Lishui that are growing so fast that city planners have razed 108 hilltops to accomodate the runaway growth. The government motto of the Lishui Economic...
This may or may not turn out to be worth watching, but Google is doing a live webcast of its invite-only Searchology press conference tomorrow, May 16th. It will run from 9:30am-12:30pm PST, and you will be able to view...
Good stat on comparative seller remorse in private equity deals:Corporate sellers who feel like they've left money on table: 46%PE sellers who feel they've left money on table: 25%Now, the latter group may be delusional while the former is realistic,...
Many venture partnerships struggle with getting enough media attention for their partners and deals. Such is not the case with Elevation Partners, which, despite having done only three deals since 2004, has more than 1,000 print mentions to date (according...
The U.S. Federal Reserve has just released a fascinating historical document, the minutes from the first post-9/11 meeting (as well as other minutes from 2001). Read it here as Greenspan, et al., try to understand just what the economic consequences...
We're Number 1! We're number 1! 1. San Diego Median home price: $601,800 P/E: 5th highest Affordability rank: 2nd least affordable Housing price trend: -4.5%[via Forbes]...
Nice demo from NYU of looking at minimalized immigration data via a (Space Invaders-ish) visualization. Nifty stuff, even if I can't figure out who all those people are who are streaming to Russia....
