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McKinsey, you are not in Vogue on the Internet
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I had orignially written something way too snarky. I realized I am far too classy for that level of snark.
I had gotten my lucious copy of the September issue of Vogue, hereafter known as the Bible. My copies of W have been missing over the summer. I’ve given up the women “lifestyle” magazine [...]
Posted in Business, Media, Random Also tagged Beauty, conde nast, conde publication, Customers, Economics, fashion advice, Internet, lifestyle magazine, mckinsey, Online Communities, parent company, women lifestyle 4 Comments
Someone asked me about Second Life
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I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life. I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual game [...]
Posted in Advertising, Business, Economics, Ideas, Information, Internet, Posts, Responding Also tagged Investment, Media, Social media, Theory 10 Comments
Aggregators, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
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Another post that is imperative to write about. *sigh*
I hate feeling like I can’t keep a good idea a secret. I feel bad that this company didn’t realize a good idea in their own product when it was staring them in the face.
So when I was at #NYTM, I [...]
Posted in Business, Ideas, Interfaces, Internet, Product Design, Responding Also tagged Economics, Entrepreneur, Interface Design, Interfaces, Internet, Investment, Iteration, new toy, News, Online Communities, Software, User Interfaces, Web 2.0 Leave a comment
Hearing the Voice from Cisco’s Chambers
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In Saturday’s WSJ, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers explains parts of the long term strategy to survive a downturn. One thing that seems to be a theme of the new strategy, beyond the buzzword of the moment, Web 2.0, is their interest in video.
It’s their big, open, yet dirty secret. Two [...]
Posted in Business, Hardware, Posts, Telecom Also tagged Chatting, Cisco Systems, John Chambers, Video, Videoconferencing, Web 2.0 2 Comments
Consensus-Based Funds, or in which an idea is sketched broadly out
In one of those comments where one never knows quite what the author originally thinks, I had written on Fred Wilson’s blog, avc.com,
Why aren’t there easier ways for average people to invest outside of pooling there money into institutions which then invest for them. Who says I have to like CalPers choices? (if I were [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Ideas, Responding Also tagged Consensus, Financial instrument, Funds, Ideas, Investing, Investment Leave a comment
The Atypical Customer-Venture Capitalists
I follow Fred Wilson’s blog, avc.com, regularly. It is my must read every day, alongside some sort of news, if I can get it. Both the posts and the comment section are worth it.
Under the post, “The VC’s Customers (Continued),” there is a comment by Chance Barnett, who writes:
That entrepreneurs are the VC’s customer only [...]
Posted in Business, Ideas, Responding, Starting Out Also tagged Capital Access - Financing, Customers, Entrepreneur, Financial Services, Fred Wilson, Limited Partners, Venture capital 1 Comment
The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition