April 11, 2008
The quote of the day is slam dunk easy. It's from Techdirt, and it's on the proposed AOL/YHOO to fend off Microsoft: ...like trying to keep a wild animal from eating you by covering yourself with feces. Well, yes....
Every time I think I'm away from universities, I get dragged back in. I'm newly on the Advisory Board for Berkeley's new Center for Innovative Financial Technology. Okay, okay, I'm a highly willing "drag-ee" on this one. While in some...
Two points make a trend, and I've now heard today from people at two major IT services firms that business, especially in India, is slowing to a crunching halt. Can't be good news for Tata, et al....
I was talking to an entrepreneur yesterday who decided not to take money from a VC, in part because the VC couldn't really answer his question. And what was that? It was the "What can you do for me?" question....
I've been playing a lot with some Monte Carlos for another project, and along the way I got to messing with the old drunk/gutter/lamppost problem. You know the drill: A drunk starts at a wall X paces from a gutter,...
Emptying my burgeoning browser tabs: Tractors on Ebay: Differences between Internet and In-Person Auctions (SSRN) Interview with Richard Russell (Investment Postcards from Cape Town) Why did no-one revise General Electric Q1 estimates sooner? (Bespoke Investment Group) Microsoft launches routing based...
