Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
I thought this article on Marketplace about e-fencing was interesting. My suspicion is that Steve DelBianco is correct and that much of the hand-wringing about this is motivated by the desire to eliminate competition.
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
We've been through the gender wars of the 80's and the culture wars of the 90's. Is the next battlefield intergenerational conflict? Clay Collins somehow managed to convince the usually sensible Penelope Trunk to post this absurd screed called "Why my generation is more productive than yours." ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
They're called Threadless, and they've merged crowdsourcing and Web 2.0 style decisioning.
They make t-shirts.
$30M gross, 30% margin.
Here's the writeup from Inc. Magazine.
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Melbourne, FL (my old home town) entrepreneurs who started e-Gold are in deep brown stuff. Is blaming your software the new Twinkie Defense?
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
It's not exactly the first time someone has made the argument that fuel prices are accelerating the migration from instore to online purchasing. What I did find interesting was the idea investors should have an explicit channel target before making a buy decision:
Until the internet sales are 15% or 20% ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Jason Calacanis has migrated from blogging to newsletter writing, where he gets to share his views and not deal with hecklers. Nice for him; not as good for me because I don't get to read the opposing viewpoint to whatever he's arguing.
Nevertheless, he's not giving up ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Shopping cart vendors, are you targeting eBay exiles? Mom and pop shops are no longer eBay's target market.
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Business Week (06/30/08) reports that a number of vendors are upset about eBay's recent fee increase. I wonder if this will lead to the migration of larger merchants away from eBay and onto their own shopping cart sites (hosted or not). We'll see.
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I was delighted to see that Best Buy has initiated a free electronics recycling pilot program. Hopefully it will catch on. I am even willing to pay Staples for a recycling service just to reduce my environmental footprint, but lots of people need the threshold to be zero ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Here's the video. He thinks we're probably alone in the Milky Way, either because we haven't heard any radio waves from another planet - unless (yikes!) "civilizations don't last that long because they destroy themselves."
This statement was made in response to a question following the talk. Only one question was ...
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