December 2010
18 posts
“Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses...”
– Alan Perlis (via msg)
“Q: Why aren’t American’s fares available on Orbitz?
A: We were...”
– American Airlines pulls itself off of Orbitz
There is a war brewing in the low fare travel website world. American Airlines pulled itself off of Orbitz which then caused Expedia in a show of solidarity to basically remove American Airlines from its results. American has made the biggest move in...
“Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available....”
– Skype Status Update
Skype’s downtown response reads like a Dr. Seuss book. In order to fix the problem of Supernodes going down they are building Mega-Supernodes. Since it has been down almost the whole day it might be time to go up to Ultra-Mega-Supernodes…
On the serious side,...
“People who live on the streets tend to cycle through emergency rooms, addiction...”
– A Plan to Make Homelessness History
Incredible that 4,800 consume $500 million in services in LA, that is $104,000 per person. The whole article is interesting and puts the homeless problem and solution in very clear economic terms that make sense. Pay for homes for the homeless as it is cheaper...
Reed Hastings is such a kickass CEO
Image via Wikipedia
On TechCrunch this morning I saw a post that Reed Hastings the CEO of Netflix did in response to a short seller of his stock. I try not to follow stocks, do not buy or own stocks currently and have no idea what Netflix should be worth in the public market but I do know that the way Reed runs that company is exactly how you should run a public company.
To me what sums up...
“A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored...”
– How to Make Wealth by Paul Graham (via rafer)
“But given where we need to go, this deal is just another shot of morphine to a...”
– Thomas Friedman talking about the tax cuts passing today’s New York Times
As much as the tax cuts are financially very good for me, I have to say I was a bit disappointed that they passed. What I would have liked to seen is the tax cuts not pass, therefore a rise in taxes and at the same...
“The ugly adolescent stage is when you’ve built the product and are now...”
– Fred Wilson posted Saturday on AVC.com
I am am going to have this quote framed and put it on the wall above my desk. This so greatly sums up how to make money as a entrepreneur, investor in companies, etc. It also sums up every single venture I have been involved in so far (except...
WatchSaar gave the team at Unsubscribe a Drone as a congrats present after CRV’s investment. We have had a bit of fun with it so far, but on Friday afternoon we started to get a bit crazy. Our first attempt to fly it out of the second floor window of our office into a heavily trafficked hallway ended in a crash, see that one here. But as you can see from the video above, the second time is a...
“Things are going well here for China. America remains a deeply politically...”
– Pretty awesome tongue-in-cheek column by Tom Friedman about how a Chinese cable could have sounded if China would’ve had its own WikiLeaker. Read the whole thing, it’s actually quite entertaining.
From WikiChina - NYTimes.com (via david-noel)
“It’s not the picture of an economy that’s investing in tomorrow: it’s the...”
– umair haque- The Worst Trade in the World
I have found the importance of Christmas shopping numbers on the financial news channel a bit ironic. It seems that we are a better economy by spending money we do not have on shit made outside of our country. The above quote really summarized my...
Google Buying Groupon is Genius
If you have not already heard, it seems that Google is buying Groupon for around $6 billion. So far the market and some bloggers have reacted negatively to the deal.
Well I think it is great and I hope that if the deal does go through it hits Google’s share price because I am ready to start buying and sitting on Google for the long term.
While I do not know the exact #’s on...