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Juan Enriquez on World Economic Malaise

A great summary of the world’s malaise, and a compelling argument about why the government’s (and populace’s) knee jerk reactions are all wrong.

Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky for the find.

Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast from PopTech [...]

American Consumer, RIP

Great article in the New [...]

Ignite Boulder

Last night I attended the first Ignite event in Boulder. I went completely devoid of what it was or any other expectations, and wow! what a great surprise.

Basically people volunteer (ahead of time) to present on a topic of their choosing. The only rules seem to be that you get 5 minutes, and [...]

The History of Finance

The Economist Magazine has an interesting article on the “the brains of capitalism”. Finance’s development is more contemporary than most people realize, and this newfound braininess has driven a fair portion of the world’s prosperity for the last few decades, and may well also explain some of the world’s current [...]

The Age of Prosperity is Over...

Arther Laffer (inventor of the Laffer curve and arguably supply-side economics) et al have a particularly bearish perspective (which I share) on the world’s economic outlook:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122506830024970697.html

A [...]

Why Blog?

I am not a long-time nor regular blogger. I often think about why I should or shouldn’t blog. Brad Feld points to a very well thought-out essay on why bloggers blog…Andrew Sullivan’s Why I Blog is a [...]

A Weekend...Denied

Thursday night, Mark and Mark and Susana and I headed out for Moab for a weekend of fun and riding. We woke up Friday to a beautiful desert morning, had a late breakfast at The Jailhouse Cafe. I had grapefruit juice, chorizo eggs, and swedish pancakes.

We were riding by noon.

I was barfing by 1:30. [...]

Noonan on Palin

I’m a longtime Peggy Noonan fan. She is perceptive and incisive. Today, in the WSJ, she writes about Sarah Palin:

“…we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and [...]

Big Mo

I am so proud of the IntenseDebate team! Check this out:

I think the following can be interpreted:

- Since our competitor’s data is inflated by including visitors that aren’t so much visiting them as much as they are visiting their publishers, while IntenseDebate’s, is not, it not clear which company is bigger.

- Our growth is [...]

The Depression (yes, I said it) and Startups

To everybody trying to understand what’s driving the current economic malaise, I haven’t seen a better description than the below deck that Sequoia put together for its portfolio companies.

Oh, and my $0.02 for you startuppers: what they said, x 2.

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn

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