In case you're having a rough Monday….
This will improve your day. Metric – Gold Guns Girls. Have an awesome week!!
July 31, 2011 | Music | No comments
How sovereign debt becomes leverage – a lesson from history
I grew up in South Africa and for a time my birth country was the only worthwhile stop on the long sea journey that spice traders would make from Europe to India and back. South Africa was colonized by Europeans for this reason. A guy called Jan Van Riebeeck was ordered to set up camp […]
The avg age of an entrepreneur is 40 and only 11% to 16% are venture backed
Vivek Whadwa, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke has written about some interesting research his team has done in the Washington Post. They found the average age for an entrepreneur is 40 and there are twice as many entrepreneurs over 50 than under 25. They also found that entrepreneurs with a college […]
July 31, 2011 | Startups | 1 comment
Tokyo markets open up 1%, guess they're not too worried
The Nikkei just opened and is up 1% after a brutal week. Guess they’re confident the US is going to get it’s act together. They must not have heard Pelosi is thinking of backing out. Or maybe FT.com’s stats are delayed.
July 31, 2011 | Finance | No comments
Business lessons from Breaking Bad
On the recommendation of my sister-in-law I’m watching a few episodes of Breaking Bad, Season 1. There’s a classic exchange between Walt and Jesse in Ep 6 as they realize they need to move from retail to wholesale: Walt: This is unacceptable. I am breaking the law here. This return is too little for the […]
July 31, 2011 | Randomness | No comments
Hacker News negativity finally hurts the program it supports
I’ve posted a couple of times about the negativity on Hacker News and why I no longer post there. Well the AirBnB fiasco has been seized by the HN “nancy grace” crowd with a vengance and they’re pounding their most successful startup ever into the dirt and promoting its competitors. While you may feel the AirBnB execs could have handled […]
July 31, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
Political Marketing and the "Debt Ceiling"
The phrase “Debt Ceiling” brings to mind phrases like “War on Terror”, “Abortion on Demand”, “Flip-Flop” – or some of the pejoratives used to criticize those wanting to depart from the Vietnam war: nervous nellies, special pleaders and politicians opposing the war were ready to “cut and run”. The reality is that there is no […]
July 31, 2011 | Politics | No comments
You know you're blog has arrived when…
…the first flame-war in your comments erupts. Cool it guys.
I've reversed comment order
The comment thread is getting a little long on this page and the oldest comment was first. I enabled threaded comments a few weeks ago and today decided to reverse comment order with newest first because it seems to work a little better with threaded comments, especially long threads.
July 30, 2011 | Introspection | No comments
Irish Melodic Metal to kick your Friday's ass
When I’m coding on 4 hours sleep I stream very heavy metal to stay focused. ChroniX GRIT on iTunes is usually my staple. I just heard a new band out of Dublin, Ireland called Shattered Skies and they absolutely kick ass! They’ve released their Reanimation EP free on SoundCloud and BandCamp. This is the final track […]
July 29, 2011 | Music | No comments