Clay Shirky: “And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.” (source)
How social media has radically altered advertising (source)
Henry Blodget’s bet on the future of business news (source)
If you can’t buy your investor a beer, don’t take their money (source)
How Apple dominates – via faberNovel (source)
The Crisis & the Euro by George Soros (source)
21st century economics isn’t about building a bigger factory. It’s about connecting a market, network, or community more tightly – Umair Haque
Gareth Vaughan’s exclusive on how NZ and other banks face NZ$900 mln of losses on Yellow Pages debt (source)
Competition is overrated (source)
China in Africa – Beijing does deals not gifts (source)
Wars Fought and Wars Googled (source)
Elevation Invests Another $120M in Facebook as that IPO Looks More Distant – US$24 billion valuation of Facebook (source)
From Angel Investor to Venture Investor: A Process (source)
Foursquare Nabs $20 Million in VC Funding at $95 Million Pre-Money Valuation (source)
A very good profile of Allan Hubbard by Rebecca Macfie – worth a read for anyone interested in South Canterbury Finance (source)
The “A-list” of angel/private investors in the New Zealand market (source)
More early-stage financing innovation – debt (source)
Twitter has 190 million users Tweeting 65 million times a day (source)
More early-stage financing – the signalling impact of inside vs outside financing (source)
The purpose of business is profit? (source)
Evening Standard (London newspaper) almost in profit after going free (source)
Why I sold Zappos – includes insights on the pressures external investors extert (source)
Behind Foursquare and Gowalla – background on the hot location-base-services start-ups (source)
Facebook’s market capitalisation on SecondMarket is now US$25 billion (bigger than Yahoo’s) (source)
The future of Netflix’s business laid bare – by Netflix (source)
Ethical capital is capitalism’s new cornerstone – Umair Haque at HBR (source)
Interactive top 20 financial institutions by market capitalization 1999-2009 (source)
A demo of Reuters Insider – a “financial YouTube” (source)
Seeding a start-up culture – focused on New York but relevant for anywhere (source)
A very good profile of Silicon Valley visionary Tim O’Reilly (source)
‘Super Angels’ alter investment landscape in Silicon Valley – and we think everywhere (source) Read More
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