WSJ – Bubbles
Image via Wikipedia Here’s a great article on bubbles from Friday’s WSJ. I think this is a great definition of just exactly what a bubble is, whether tulip bubble or dotcom bubble: Bubbles emerge at times when investors profoundly disagree about the significance of a big economic development, such as the birth of the Internet. […]
My Starbucks Idea
My Starbucks Idea The reviews are not good, but I have to say like where they are going here. Not so much for the consumer side of things (all of the ideas on there are fairly obvious…free drink on my birthday, free drinks for every 10 coffees, etc), but because of the new Partner only […]
Buffett’s Words of Wisdom…
(on flickr from trackrecord) I finally sat down and took some time to read through Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders for 2007 (released a few weeks ago). As always Warren teaches and shares so much about life and business. I’ve really become a big fan of his after reading R0ger Lowenstein’s book: Buffett: […]
Macbook vs Motorola Q
Well I never thought I would say this, but apparently the Motorola Q is a more durable device than my once trusty Macbook. Last Friday my macbook’s hard drive crashed complelety, rendering the computer useless and wiping all my data clean in the process. (fortunately I’ve backed up most important items in one way or […]
Financial Infrastructure
Ok as promised here is a glimpse at my personal financial infrastructure inspired by Ben Casnocha’s post awhile back. I am still working on it, and it’s difficult to truly stick to due to my current work situation which involves spurts of income instead of a consistent monthly flow, but it is at least a […]
Starbucks here, Starbucks there
One of the very first things I noticed when I moved to New York City was the unbelievable amount of Starbucks. I can, right now, think of roughly 7 Starbucks that are within a reasonable walking distance of me, 4 that are within 5 minutes of walking. You know what? They are ALL busy most […]
Jetblue responds
After an absolutely painful 5 days for Jetblue, they apparently have their act together. They announced a customer bill of rights today, which I think is a good idea at heart but really doesn’t quite get it done. I will say it is a step in the right direction, and is certainly more than I’ve […]
Disaster at JFK
(4 of Jetblue’s 6 baggage carousels were like this at JFK today…a baggage wasteland) I had a fun full day at JFK airport today courtesy of Jetblue and the winter storm from yesterday. In the past I’ve been a Jetblue champion, often bragging about it to people as the best airline to fly. It has […]
Prosper Arbitrage
I remember first reading about the peer to peer lending site, prosper.com a year or so ago and was immediately impressed. I really believe that peer to peer lending will be huge made. For the first time in history people can loan money directly to others (instead of basically doing it through a […]
Video Post…
Today I came across a few interesting videos in my normal blog reading that I thought were interesting… One of my favorite bloggers, Fred Wilson, gave a keynote speech at the Software and Information Industry Association Summit where he talked about the future of information services. I really agree with Fred’s points about information becoming […]