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by mathattack 15y ago
In fairness, if you replace Russia with India, is it so far off? Remember that there were many years of books with titles like, "The rise and fall of the American programmer" that talked about the educational system in Eastern Europe. Than
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by mathattack 15y ago
Multiples of Money is actually another way of saying IRR - it's just adding the dimension of time. Christensen is ripping on the slaving devotion to single metrics that some firms follow. This is very true. Any individual metric can be ga
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by mathattack 15y ago
Are we sure this isn't a spoof?
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by mathattack 15y ago
That's just what I was getting ready to type. I wonder if this type of basic research pushes the boundary of knowledge.
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by mathattack 15y ago
I think we are overanalyzing here. This is like a car company that maintains a garage to attract people who like to look under the hood. It's taking a strategic people decision when hard data isn't easily available. Everything about sys
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by mathattack 15y ago
I wondered the same. All I can think is this is a sign that IBM is no longer a technology company.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Isn't the job of spinster to imply that? :-)
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by mathattack 15y ago
True. And their stock trading performance bears this out. Very sickening.
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by mathattack 15y ago
2nd Life caught my eye - as did the absence of many winners since then. :-)
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by mathattack 15y ago
I agree, most suck. The only ones who don't are ones with many years in the industry they services. There are ex-engineers that make good engineering headhunters. There are ex-brand managers that make good marketing brand managers. Even
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by mathattack 15y ago
Very good points. This is also why traditional economists (while having their own reasons to struggle with being called scientists, at least have theories) complain about behavioral economists. They say, "You point out exceptions to our t
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by mathattack 15y ago
This is still a valuable skill. Not the only one but a valuable one. Who wants to tie their money or career to someone who can't get you paid on the other side?
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by mathattack 15y ago
Though your premise is correct, Accenture is public, not private. They (like many others) wanted to expand beyond pure consulting, and the partners wanted to cash out. Accounting and law firms may be a better example, though even they aren
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by mathattack 15y ago
Depends on the school too. Its easier to parlay a philosophy major from Princeton into a good job than philosophy from Ohio State.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Very good questions. I'm here for answers too. Can you describe more about the newspaper requirement? Seems like an outright subsidy to old media.
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by mathattack 15y ago
I was thinking A/B testing too when I saw the headline. This seems something better to do earlier rather than later, especially if you're looking for repeat business, as you can alienate those who liked the old name. This can be dangerous
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by mathattack 15y ago
I am generally against certification in most fields, but... 1) It's very hard to identify a good lawyer. If we (as true libertarians) did away with the bar exam, wouldn't someone create an exam so those unable to tell good lawyers from ba
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by mathattack 15y ago
Is this what you intended? I see a like to Wharton's Strategic R&D management.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Thanks for sharing. There is always one more interesting than the press release floating around. :-)
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by mathattack 15y ago
Great to see a technologist at the helm of IBM. Granted she made her marks in services, then marketing and sales, but the past 3 CEOs have been a salesman, a strategist, and an office politician. I hope she does well, as IBM may need a mo
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting. Focus on the fundamentals and fight in your markets, rather than chasing magic. I hear it a lot. "We should do an ASP", "We need to be a services company" and "We should buy company X." I wonder if the last point is why buye
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by mathattack 15y ago
Completely true. It's always worth paying up for good engineers. Good engineers with lots of friends - even more so.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Fantastic book. One of the things that is rough about computer science academia is usually it's either quickly obsolete, or too theoretical to be useful. In a sense they're confused about being and producing programmers or mathematicians.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Is this supposed to allude to, "Fred Wilson's doesn't want his companies to IPO, IPOs want to Fred Wilson" or something like that?
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by mathattack 15y ago
I was referencing where his returns came from, not his capital. That's another story which I haven't dug enough researching to figure out.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Based on subsequent valuations it would seem like Facebook, Groupon and others are doing very well. It only takes a few home runs to cover a lot of strikeouts and singles.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting. When I see success, it always seems like there is something additional to intelligence - like work ethic, or conviction. In this case it seems like his place in society allowed him to understand social media before a lot of o
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by mathattack 15y ago
Groupon even alluded to the layoffs when the CEO talked about marketing costs dramatically decreasing.
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by mathattack 15y ago
6 purchases in 6 months, then asking for more money... Sounds like a VC/PE firm, not a deal site. If you're out of cash, I understand letting people go in a hurry but that management team will struggle to get employees in their next ventu
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by mathattack 15y ago
I pulled the MBA link only for convenience. In my experience competitive undergrad programs are similar. Certainly companies have responsibilities too. In general I think a year is the right period to stick something out. If you hate th

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