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Nassim Taleb on Charlie Rose
Here’s an excerpt from a recent Charlie Rose interview with Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. It’s a very interesting perspective on how we got into our current economic mess.
Thoughtful analysis of the Wall Street crisis
Harvard Business School published a very thoughtful analysis of the current Wall Street crisis in their most recent Working Knowledge newsletter. I highly recommend reading it to understand the background and the events leading up to the current situation.
Beta test for financial planning site
I’m helping a friend launch a new financial planning website. You can register for the beta test at http://pennypuddle.com/signup.php and the first ~25 users will get a free financial plan prepared. If you’d like to test out the site without sharing your real financial information just register and make up some reasonable numbers. If [...]
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Very interesting post on Marc Andreessen’s blog
I just ran across this very interesting post on Marc Andreessen’s blog. He quotes a number of concepts from Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet’s partner and one of the founders of Munger Tolles & Olson). Andreessen puts an entrepreneurial spin on the concepts and how they relate to start-up environments.
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Microhoo update:
This should make things interesting (the quote is from WSJ’s email update this morning):
“Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says.
After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share offer “massively [...]
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Bad news for AMD
This just in from the WSJ:
“Dell Inc. has decided to stop selling most consumer systems powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips through Dell’s popular Web site.
The big computer company says it still plans to keep selling the AMD-based machines in retail stores and over the phone. But Dell’s decision is nevertheless seen as a [...]
This seems like a great idea
This seems like a great idea. I was just discussing a similar concept with a friend and we were wondering why you don’t see more of these virtual office spaces. After all, if Starbucks can provide millions of people with their office-away-from-the-office for the price of a cup of coffee, why not charge $20-$30 or [...]
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