When I was in grade school, occasionally the cafeteria would have make-your-own peanut butter & jelly day. “Crowd sourcing” wasn’t a gleam in any neoligist’s1 eye back then, but it followed a similar general idea: provide the basic components, and let the consumers put them together.
I thought I’d try something along those lines here. [...]
On 08.09.10, In Economics, History, Investing, Musings memories and observations, Secular Market Trends, Technology, U.S. economy, by David Pinsen
Fred Wilson, who I think has taken more vacations in the last year than Michelle Obama (off the top of my head, for Fred: Buenos Aires, Vail, Paris, someplace in Italy), hopes the Skype IPO will be the one to “get things going again.” Maybe. But when early investors (the smart/lucky money) are selling, someone [...]
On 08.08.10, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Macro Trends, Musings memories and observations, Politics, Short Selling, U.S. economy, by David Pinsen
Sorry for the recent dry spell here. The dieting & exercising had me a little tired last week (dropped another 5 lbs, after dropping none the previous week) and I wasn’t too motivated to blog. I started to write a “pox on both their houses” post about the set-to-expire Bush tax cuts, but lost interest [...]
– “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 [...]
Apologies for a series of uncreative post titles, but they seem to expedite my blogging a little. 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. Please note that you do not need to [...]
On 07.30.10, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Economics, Investing, Politics, Short Selling, U.S. economy, by David Pinsen
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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On 07.24.10, In Economics, History, Musings memories and observations, U.S. economy, by David Pinsen
That title overstates the case a little, but I doubt I made a friend of Matt Miller after quickly dashing off to him the e-mail below, in response to his Washington Post op/ed earlier this week (“How to Preserve Our Standard of Living”):
Dear Mr. Miller:
How can you write a whole column on our educational and [...]
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