January 2009
42 posts
via Frumintor Been Through the Storm by Busta...
“The liquidity process needs the most reform. Internet / technology companies...”
– Venturesome - Lee Hower: Does VC need radical reinvention?
3 Peat by Lil Wayne on Tha Carter III
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“The Fed is doing it in secret, using provisions of its charter never before...”
– Robert Reich: How America Embraced Lemon Socialism
“Eric Gordon got banned from the team half-court competition. He got so good that...”
– DeAndre Jordan » Unlimited Range
“Smarter infrastructure is by far our best path to creating new jobs and...”
– Samuel J. Palmisano: Let’s Spend on Broadband and the Power Grid
“I am tired of the lack of accountability. Citi and BOFA act as though this is...”
– So, BOFA, Why Hasn’t Ken Lewis Been Fired?
“At one point, the company sacked thousands of veteran salespeople and replaced...”
– Circuit City to Liquidate, Meaning 30,000 Job Losses
“Video sharing site Motionbox has just closed a $6 million Series C funding round...”
– Motionbox Raises $6 Million Series C For Its YouTube Alternative
Bravo to Chris for managing to raise a total of $17.2M for Motionbox. Had Diller ever decided to dip into his $1BN warchest and shower that amount of money on Vimeo, IAC would not be so growth and innovation starved. Remember, the...
“YouTube has been testing a new way of combating copyright violations on the site...”
– YouTube Full Of Creepy, Soundless Videos
“Betaworks’ single sale and best example: Summize, a search engine that can...”
– Reinventing the Incubator - Jan. 13, 2009
The author forgot to mention that Betaworks is a Twitter investor too. So, selling one portfolio company to another may not be the ideal benchmark for success unless Uncle Bernie is the investor.
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“The speed with which the 200-year old newspaper industry is disintegrating is...”
– Another Big Newspaper Biting Dust: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“This is not good news for publishers who have an economic model based on a $20...”
– A VC
“The John Madden Award for “Performance that most resembled a...”
– Sports Guy: Award-winning picks for Round 2
“In the most scathing criticism yet of Treasury’s implementation of the...”
– Panel Steps Up Criticism of Treasury Over TARP
Heist of the century honors go to Paulson. TARP is a full order of magnitude larger than Uncle Bernie’s take.
“At the end of November in 2008, I vowed to introduce 31 features in 31 days, it...”
– I did it! The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days
‘HBA Case Review Question’: If Ted can produce 31 in 26, why can’t even (seemingly) capable companies produce 1 in 30?
“So long, Wallstrip, home to goofy finance video casts and BlackBerry typing...”
– CBS Interactive Bails On Wallstrip
CBS has consistently championed Wallstrip’s ‘DNA’ as a key asset, and reiterated its plans to spread that magic around the larger organization as if producing short-form video, albeit in a largely undigestible format, is some type of elusive...
“His once-mighty business empire had collapsed in value. That’s the...”
– How HeidelbergCement Came Unstuck
“The ruse became increasingly difficult to maintain as the company’s...”
– Fraud Rocks Satyam as Chairman Resigns
“The Hype Machine is small, influential, and profitable. It doesn’t take a...”
– The Rolling Stone Of Our Time
“We’re not going to be able to expect the American people to support this...”
– Obama Warns of ‘Trillion-Dollar Deficits’
Wise invesment and good management seems a novel approach. Also, if Uncle Bernie’s digital breadcumbs had been published on the Internet in an ‘easy-to-search’ format, private sleuths would have uncovered the shell game far in advance of a...
“All Songs DRM-Free + iTunes offers customers a simple, one-click option to...”
– Changes Coming to the iTunes Store
Apple joining Amazon in a DRM-Free world is kinda a seminal moment for the music business. Theft and unsavory behavior is commonplace in every industry. Yet, smarter business minds have long since chalked up the tomfoolery to a cost of doing business. Don’t...
Welcome Back by Young Jeezy
Special Delivery: Brown Can Thrash Your Packages... →
Add Brown to the figurative list of bankrupt entities.
I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That by Cypress...
“The prediction here is that Facebook Connect becomes what the Facebook app...”
– In 2009, Facebook Connect Makes Us Forget Facebook Widgets
“While at Vimeo, we envisioned a different path for the music video. Traditional...”
– How to Solve the Big Music / YouTube Spat: Copy MySpace
“Ford posted a 32% drop in U.S. light-vehicle sales for December while Toyota...”
– U.S. Auto Sales Continue to Skid
“Even when we got to the point of launching it on April 1, 2004 (2.5 years after...”
– Paul Buchheit: Overnight Success Takes a Long Time
“The credit goes to that formidable force in my foodie life; namely, The Barefoot...”
– The Amateur Gourmet - The Best Broccoli of Your Life
“I think someone got drunk and hit a switch at your data center or something. Way...”
– Evite: happy, happy
Standing on The Mountain Top by DJ Khaled on We...