June 2009
18 posts
6 tags
A New Venture Capital Model
Lackluster track record in the past few years, closing IPO windows, fewer M&A exits, maturing IT and software industries and lower capital requirements of startups spurred discussion on the sustainability of the economic model of the Venture Capital asset class. Below are the analyses that I found most insightful.
Alan Patricoff, manager at Greycroft Partners and a veteran in the VC...
5 tags
“As a result, one cannot rule out that by late next year or 2011, a perfect storm...”
– RGE - New Roubini Project Syndicate Op-Ed Pondering on the Financial Markets Rally
2 tags
“A Neilsen study from the second quarter of 2008, for example, says that mobile...”
– I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Teens Don’t Twitter - Cringely on technology
3 tags
“In what follows, I will expose the deal-killers found in the five most commonly...”
–
Wall Street Journal / MIT Sloan » Why Business Plans Don’t Deliver « MIT Sloan Management Review
2 tags
Twitter Bayesian Filtering
In the past few days I’ve been thinking about some bayesian filtering algorithm to recommend links to twitter users based on their interests, induced from their previous twits.
3 tags
“As with print-based media, Internet-based distribution generates only a tiny...”
– Sorry, There’s No Way To Save The TV Business
9 tags
A Long Term View
Interesting graphs that compare the current Great Recession with previous post-war recessions and the Great Depression are available at Quarterly Update: The Recession in Historical Context (pdf) by the Council on Foreign Releations.
US Government Takes Place Of American Households...
Fed release of flow of funds data (pdf) reveals continued deleveraging in the private sector, partially offset by government borrowing.
Total US debt outstanding as of Q1 2009 was $52.8 trillion (down $255 billion in Q1), of which:
Households: $13.8 trillion (down $152 billion in Q1)
Business: $11.1 trillion (down $90 billion in Q1)
State and local government: $2.3 trillion (up $108...
“For most of the past decade, China’s industrial value-added growth (IVA)...”
– What you don’t know … - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
7 tags
“But for those of us who think that an eternal escape from work would be...”
– Why you need your own company | Derek Sivers
6 tags
“While this finding seems counterintuitive, since a quick rise in popularity...”
– Why Things Become Unpopular
“Conway is also accelerating his investing, he says in the email, and has a goal...”
– Ron Conway To Focus On “Real Time Data” Startups: 40-50 New Investments In Next 18 Months
3 tags
2 tags
