Category: Business and Entrepreneurship

Links and thoughts for 8.03

– “I’ve got apps”: Joshua Persky, who was the subject of a few posts on the old blog, has a new iPhone app, Sell This Pig. He’s also got another business venture, Twisplays. Good for him. Nice step up from the short e-books.
– Bill Freza: Immigration reform and the American Dream. Better [...]

Links and thoughts for 7.30.10

A few more thoughts and links, but first, if you haven’t had a chance to vote for the Portfolio Armor iPhone app in the Thomson Reuters StreetApps Challenge, please take a few seconds to do so here. I know some of you reading this haven’t voted yet, so get to it. Thanks a lot.
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A few thoughts and links for 7.29.10

A few thoughts and links, but first, if you haven’t had a chance to vote for the Portfolio Armor iPhone app in the Thomson Reuters StreetApps Challenge, please take a few seconds to do so here. Thanks a lot.
– Batesian Mimicry Explanation of Business Cycles. Fascinating post by Eric Falkenstein. Worth reading in [...]

The Thompson Reuters StreetApps Challenge

Votes are open in the Thompson Reuters Street Apps Challenge. Here is the gallery of competing apps, and below is my entry in the contest, the Portfolio Armor iPhone app. If you like it, I’d be grateful if you clicked here and voted for it (if you’re not a Facebook user, you’ll have to take [...]

Shed Vac update

In the previous post on this, I wrote,
I had an idea to develop something like this, a year ago or so, but I couldn’t think of a solution to the problem of the vacuum noise.
It looks like the Shed Vac folks haven’t either. As soon as I switched the motor on, Cheryl’s cats fled in [...]

The Cougar Combinator

I had stopped reading and commenting on Fred Wilson’s blog a couple of weeks ago, but I ended up there unawares last night after following a bit.ly link tweeted by Shana Carp. I preceded to leave a few comments, which you can read here, if you like.

Howard Lindzon on angel investing versus stocks

Howard Lindzon, founder of StockTwits and Social Leverage, and angel investor extraordinaire, reiterates a point he made on his blog a couple of months ago, about how he considers angel investing in start-ups less risky than investing in stocks. He also offers a nice sports analogy to describe the extraordinary success the big Wall Street [...]

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