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Category Archives: Thoughtmarket
How useful will AOL data muckup be?
AOL blindly released a “noc-list” of sorts, a set of history files on their search results spanning several months, which was freely available on their site for several hours. Now the files are floating around on the internet. People are … Continue reading
What does “limiting growth” mean?
If it is your waistline, it means your health. If it is your neighborhood, it means maintaining a friendly atmosphere. If it is your startup, it means being careful not to blow all your cash too quickly. If it is … Continue reading
Where Vonage’s trouble came from
Vonage’s troubles keep getting worse, but why? Questionable business plan – everyone has one of those. It wouldn’t be a plan if everyone wasn’t questioning it, hoping to get their money in at a discount. It is really all about … Continue reading
VCs pouring cash, just not into Colorado glasses (yet)
Fortunately, I think happy hour should be longer, even if it does have to start a little later. According to yesterday’s report from E&Y and DJ’s VentureOne, venture capital investing hit its best quarter since the first of 2001. That’s … Continue reading
Cheap tools require expensive minds
Inexpensive hardware and software leads to quick time to market – on that there is no doubt. This, in turn, allows burgeoning new business ideas, and as Rich Karlgaard (and Glenn Reynolds) surmise, small business benefits the most. Big companies … Continue reading
I wanna sell books even if I’m full of crap
There is this compilation of best business books, supposedly “known to mankind,” which looks a hell of a lot like a pack of book writers (and Amazon affiliates) trying to hock their wares under the guise of good information. Give … Continue reading
Dell doesn’t screw everything up
Like my memory of their once superb support. I am not going to debate Dell’s now inherent negatives – Jeff Matthews has a lock on that – instead, I’ll speak to the experience I last remember, and it was a … Continue reading
Bernanke caves to the housing sector’s PR teams?
The housing sector, including the companies involved, is experiencing “a slowdown” complete with rapidly rising inventories, rising debt, and P/Es reminiscent of a back alley beating. Who cares, because the Fed Chairman says it looks ‘orderly’. You have to love … Continue reading
Save the internet, and drown in the process
A really technical guy talks net neutrality, and how all the partisan positioning may wind up killing the internet altogether. Death of the internet, or just a slowing of its growth via lack of innovation – it makes no difference. … Continue reading
Signs liquidity is about to disappear from your market
Liquidity makes markets. Without a fair share of buyers and sellers to keep the spreads reasonable, nothing works. If you were to suck a big player out of the market, say one that provides a lot of “insured liquidity,” the … Continue reading
