Clay Shirky, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: “When someone demands to be told how we can replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be [...]
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Marc Andreesen: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
April 28th, 2008
Marc Andreesen, If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo: “We have seen extensive press coverage of Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo over the last few months, including notably excellent coverage from Silicon Alley Insider and the Wall Street Journal. However, I have not seen a detailed analysis of how a full hostile takeover might play out [...]
Tags: business · marc andreesen · microsoft · yahoo
AntiPortfolio – Misadventures in Venture Capitalism
April 22nd, 2008
Bessemer Venture Partners, AntiPortfolio: “Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation’s oldest venture capital firm, carrying on an unbroken practice of venture capital investing that stretches back to 1911. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up. Over the course of our history, we did [...]
Tags: business · economics · usa · venture capital
Why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong
March 29th, 2008
Positive Sharing, Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong: “The phrase “The customer is always right” was originally coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London in 1909, and is typically used by businesses to: Convince customers that they will get good service at this company [...]
Tags: business
Debtor Nation
August 20th, 2007
Harvard Magazine: Debtor Nation. The rising risks of the American Dream, on a borrowed dime
Tags: business · consumerism · economy · globalization · money · usa
‘De manipulaties van mrs. Innocent’
April 25th, 2007
Gratis tabloid De Pers, vandaag tevens huis-aan-huis bezorgd in Amsterdam, kopt paginabreed Nina ‘World Online’ Brink regelde haar eigen eerherstel. Eric Smit schrijft deel 1 van een drieluik. Smullen voor de liefhebber. Update 26 april, deel 2: De publieke terechtstelling van Joel Wyler. En update 27 april, deel 3: Handlangers in toga.
Tags: astrology · business · nina brink · nl · world online
links for 2006-07-07
July 7th, 2006
Wired 14.07: The Rise and Fall of the Hit “The era of the blockbuster is so over. The niche is now king, and the entertainment industry – from music to movies to TV – will never be the same.” (tags: business economics culture internet media longtail)
links for 2006-05-14
May 14th, 2006
American Photo: The Best Photography on the Web “After three months of clicking and cruising, we have found exemplary Websites from ten very different photographers, each of whom is taking the medium into new areas and new levels of communication.” (tags: photography art web) gladwell dot com – the talent myth – Are smart people [...]
Tags: art · business · culture · enron · managment · mckinsey · photography · psychology · web