Over the last few years, TechStars has indirectly touched my life in many ways: I was CEO of IntenseDebate, a TechStars graduate; I have invested in a few TechStars companies; I have met some incredibly great entrepreneurs that I continue to mentor and interact with years after the first introduction; I have met a large number [...]
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The best economics and business books of the year, according to The Economist magazine: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial Systems–and Themselves. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking; 624 pages; $32.95. Allen Lane; £14.99 TechCrunch has a nice post about the history and drivers of MS’s browser innovation (or lack thereof). Rather than playing nicely with the exciting development of HTML 5, MS instead is dragging its feet and trying to push people toward its latest trojan horse, which is called SilverLight. I wonder if, in their strategic planning, MS [...] From docs submitted in bankruptcy court, Chrysler claims it will be profitable in 2012. This, after losing $17B in 2008. No way. Chrysler, you have products that nobody wants, that are obsolete, and are not price-competitive. The auto industry in general is broadly over-supplied. There is nothing out there that leads me to believe that you can or [...] Last week I made the effort to properly recycle an old VCR. In Boulder, this means that you dispose of your old electronics at EcoCycle. First Question: How many people are actually going to sort electronics out of their regular trash stream, and make a separate trip just to dispose of some old electronics? When I showed [...] The US auto industry has 1.9 feet in the grave. This is so obvious that people don’t even waste much ink on it any more. Here are 3 succinct perspectives: - One of my favorite humor blogs, Long or Short Capital, has for the first time in memory bitten its own tongue in calling out [...] From Michael Lewis, the guy you brought us Liar’s Poker…a great story about somebody on Wall Street who is actually making money these days…The End is a great [...] Most economists, with the exception of the ancient-school Paul Krugman, think that broad-scale government bail-outs in these times of troubles are big mistakes. The problem is, most Americans are not economists. Furthermore, they don’t know any economists, and don’t read or understand any economics. Hence politics, rather than economics, will rule the day. Now that [...] All this talk of wealth re-distribution is scaring the crap out of me. Unlike the old days, when people used to admire successful businesspeople, nowadays there are resentments and feelings of injustice toward “too much success”. Paul Samuelson, a Nobel-prize winning economist, writes about why the people’s anger towards investment bankers and CEO’s, and the politicians’ [...] 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 [...] |
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