Category Archives: Investments

Dot Com Bubble vs current tech climate

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How Germany’s crushed French & the Pigs

How Germany’s Labor Market Reforms Crushed the French and the PIIGS from Mitch Green

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What happend on NYSE this morning?

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Will Mobile Commerce Overtake Ecommerce?

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Cash, in all its dirty, inefficient, multi-currency forms, is the financial cockroach of the world…

Cash, in all its dirty, inefficient, multi-currency forms, is the financial cockroach of the world. Everyone wants it dead, but no matter what technology-based, nuclear blast hits it, it just doesn’t die. —VIA     Square: The Mega-Disrupter Everyone Wants … Continue reading

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How does the job # compare to other recessions? Updated for today’s #s

We have the latest job #s today’s: 80K number of net new jobs created was below the 100K expected.  8.2% unemployment.    

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How to finance Cancer cure?

MIT Finance Department Chair and world influencer Dr. Andrew Lo’s latest hypothesis. Premise: coming up with a single, effective cancer drug costs $200 million spread and takes 10 years. Solution: Use CDOs – “research based obligations” or RBO bonds, that would be divided … Continue reading

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Best Downgrade Timing – after 90% drop in share price

Research In Motion ($RIMM) was downgraded this morning by Morgan Stanley. The firm lowered their rating from Equal Weight to Underweight.   The stock has fallen from $144 to $10  

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The $4 Million Complaint Call

Inspiring story from Inc on how 1 call ended up $4m order down the line There’s a moral to the story: Every customer needs to be treated with respect, and no customer should be left dissatisfied. I’m not saying that … Continue reading

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Equity Value

Chris Dixon has  a great blog post on Equity Value: There is a relationship between capital, revenue, profits, and equity values:  Enterprise software companies tend to require lots of capital to get to scale but command high equity values once … Continue reading

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