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Today, businessman and media personality Donald Trump turns 65 years old. continue reading...
JWT unveils their list of 100 things to look out for in 2011: continue reading...
Not only do women make less on the workforce, but now according to the latest Consumer Report, women are also being charged more for the products that they use compared to the ones for men. continue reading...
I’m pretty sure I walked over 200 blocks today in Manhattan. Yes: walked.200.blocks.
I am staying in Noho, on Bowery and 3rd street. If you know Manhattan, you be the judge: continue reading...
Noticed the light blogging in the past couple of days?
Well, here’s why. continue reading...
Michael Arrington, editor of Tech Crunch, has spent some time this week eulogizing Edgeio, the company that took on Craigslist and burned through $5M in financing, only to shut down this past week. Edgeio shut down because investors no longer wanted to fund operations.
Arrington was an investor in the company. In his latest pontification on the matter, called The Twice Shy Entrepreneur, a few quotes and passages stand out. First, commenting on the 1996-2000 era, he comments: continue reading...
One of the best things about starting a company is that you become resilient and patient. I am one of the most impatient people I’ve ever come across (which begs the question, does one actually come across oneself? but I digress).
Last night I met some fellow entrepreneurs and I told them that when you manage a startup and high-growth company, there are really only two things to remember: continue reading...
Be careful what you ask for. A lot of people get into things for money, others for power, a few for respect.
Say you were an entrepreneur and someone came to you and: continue reading...
The NY Times has a fascinating piece on Silicon Valley in general and Slide.com’s Max Levchin (formerly of Paypal) in particular. It also quotes other successful entrepreneurs, such as
- Peter A. Thiel, Levchin’s partner at PayPal who now runs hedge fund called Clarium Capital and as one of Facebook’s first investors is sitting one of the biggest paper gains of Web 2.0 fame; continue reading...
Apparently, traditional media’s love and hate relationship with YouTube took an interesting turn tonight: NBC canceled its channel on YouTube.
I won’t comment on that directly since WatchMojo.com is a content provider on YouTube and enough people are already commenting on the unconfirmed news, but I’ve been meaning to look at the interesting dynamic between traditional media companies and web video startups, and this is one more chess move in the big game that’s really only starting. continue reading...
