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
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
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
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
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
…the first flame-war in your comments erupts. Cool it guys.
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
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
This is illuminating to say the least. The Washington Post is reporting on spending under Bush vs Obama. Keep in mind that the Post has been called “Pravda on the Potomac”, so it comes with a healthy pinch of liberal bias. My view is that the budget culture in Washington is broken because a new budget […]
One side effect of the so called “budget criss” is that everyone who never heard of congressman John Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives and representative of Ohio’s 8th congressional district, has now heard of him. Here’s Google trends showing the rise of Boehner: The longer this spectacle continues, the more famous Boehner and […]
July 29, 2011 | Politics | No comments