- Differences between YCombinator and Seedcamp (M.A.D. Motive)
- How Loopt got background tasks to work on the iPhone (Fast Company)
- Motorola is now a software company (mocoNews)
- No, I will not read your fucking script (Josh Olson)
- How Techcrunch got punk’d by Facebook (Techcrunch)
- What to learn about pricing from menu engineers (GigaOM)
- How to remember everything you learn (Wired)
- How social relationships can affect behavior (Wired)
- Can happiness be contagious? (NY Times)
- Dean of Harvard Medical School on healthcare reform (Journal of Clinical Investigation)
- Creating quant models closer to reality (NY Times)
- Harvard and Yale’s endowment losses are 30%+ (WSJ)
- Harvard moves to manage part of its endowment in house (NY Times)
- Fluff piece on Intellectual Ventures (Economist)
- Hedge fund redemptions are the big investor issue of the day (WSJ)
- Thoughts on contrarian investing (Legg Mason)
- Greenlight’s Q2 2009 hedge fund investor letter (Einhorn)
- The seven deadly sins mapped in America (Wired)
- The new Israeli lobby (NY Times)
- Real wages for college grads have dropped since 2000 (BusinessWeek)
- Interesting visualization on what’s spent where (Information is Beautiful)
- How Generation Xers are bringing in collaboration (ReadWriteWeb)
- A rant against Google Book Search (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- More Americans over 50 are smoking dope than ever before (Slate)
- Half of all Britons are injured while eating biscuits (Telegraph)
- Early risers crash earlier than late risers (Scientific American)
Problem #2
Musings on venture capital and the inefficient private markets
