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by jakarta 16y ago
Could this be correlation without causation? You see a lot of diversity at some of these blue chip companies (Coca-Cola, Pepsi, JNJ, AmEx) but maybe that is because they are so large and well known that they have an imperative to be diverse
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by jakarta 16y ago
I'm a big fan of his book Losing My Virginity, which shows some of the low risk methods he approached to entrepreneurship. -When he was young, he started a school magazine and pre-sold advertisements to local businesses, minimizing the risk
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Year of the Tablet, or the Year of the iPad? (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
In this case the consequence was a larger competitor came along and purchased the company at a premium. Some businesses are just too dysfunctional to survive. This company was plagued with leadership issues (CEO/founder had been forced out
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by jakarta 16y ago
I don't agree with this kind of singular thinking. Capital should go wherever returns are best. If you have a steel company and you are at the top of the cycle, investing in steel plants or doing acquisitions in the steel space will be a de
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by jakarta 16y ago
The counterargument is that the ROIC of growth might be less than the real estate investment. I had a chance to do work for a board member of a public company. For 10 years they invested in R&D which was an utter failure and used up the
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by jakarta 16y ago
The Economist is successful because the content can be useful for professionals. It gives you a great weekly snapshot of geopolitica/global economic events and commentary. So you can expense it to your employer. I know of a few big global m
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by jakarta 16y ago
...or useful enough to get your subscription paid for by your employer. (see: the WSJ, Financial Times, the Economist)
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Instapaper and Flipboard: Feel Free to Read This Later, on Your Phone(nytimes.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
Single page print version: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201012/viral-me-s...
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The Viral Me: Inside Y Combinator (gq.com)
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OpenTable: The Online Reservations That Restaurants Love to Hate(nytimes.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
I don't think it does. The life insurance contribution to Berkshire Hathaway results is quite small. The bulk of the income is from reinsurance and P/C activities.
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think that for some people, particularly billionaires, money is more about keeping score.
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Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune(online.wsj.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
To me, the best idea is to invest in areas that are less correlated with your own field. For example, a good friend of mine works at a mutual fund as an analyst covering banks. For him, his job is already highly levered to the performance o
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by jakarta 16y ago
That's a really good point about the size issue with the Durbin Amendment, so in that case, then yeah - interchange fees should be a great income stream for Bank Simple. I don't know too much about how it works for an affiliate debit card l
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by jakarta 16y ago
I'm still trying to nail the business model here. "BankSimple account plus BankSimple debit card replaces your existing personal bank account. Make deposits, withdraw cash, pay bills, earn interest, and more. However, BankSimple is not a "b
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by jakarta 16y ago
Berkshire Hathaway. Almost all of the business units are run by hungry entrepreneurs that live and breathe the business. They sold to Berkshire as a means of cashing out but most of the managers love to compete and stay on. As a result, the
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by jakarta 16y ago
What I wonder is, how much of this is simply inevitable? As a company grows larger it is bound to have more bureaucracy and become more sluggish. The best and brightest, especially those looking to work somewhere that is more agile will ine
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Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds(nytimes.com)
41 points by jakarta 16y ago|17 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
I really admire Netflix as a company but would probably not bet on them succeeding in the long run. I would never bet against them either. Years ago, we had Moviefone which controlled the cinema ticket distribution biz, it aggregated almost
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think the reason is that Tumblr is pretty hip and it's geared towards these streams of consciousness - type posts. Most Tumblr blogs seem to consist of random photos posted, maybe a song, or a quote. It's content that is very easy to push
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Insider Trading: The Next Frontier(online.wsj.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
To me, what is really interesting about this deal is how it all came about. Elliott Associates forced Novell to put themselves up for sale after Elliott offered to buy the entire company. They're a really interesting hedge fund because they
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by jakarta 16y ago
It depends I think. At the very least, it would give him the ability to add a new skill to his resume which would be pretty useful. In some of these low level assistant jobs, they list photoshop knowledge as something that would be benefici
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by jakarta 16y ago
Some of these unemployed liberal arts majors can be really frustrating to me. A few months back, I was talking to an old roommate of mine, who graduated 1.5 years ago with a BA in PHL and a foreign language (3.9 GPA), who has not had any lu
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How Is a Hedge Fund Like a School?(nymag.com)
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Verizon Rethinks WiFi Data Pricing: Charge Based on Speed (online.wsj.com)
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Cyborg beetles in action [video](scientificamerican.com)
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