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Weekend reading

Skype founders sue again to disrupt Ebay deal (Business Insider) Buffet’s missed call could have changed Lehman history (Telegraph) Journalisted, an interesting site to keep track of journalists (Journalisted) Silicon Valley joblessness grows to 12 percent (SiliconValley.com) The debtification of the world (Infectious Greed) What makes the Mint dataset interesting (Infectious Greed) Yahoo puts Zimbra [...]

Posted 19 September 2009 § ‡ Comments °

What I’m reading today

Mint gets acquired by Intuit for $170M (Techcrunch) Spinvox nearly bankrupt, to be sold (BBC) A gold bubble? (Amusis) “The rally in the U.S. equity market has been so pronounced that it is no longer just pricing in the end of the recession. It is pricing in two years of recovery.” (Barron’s) Social perceptions and [...]

Posted 14 September 2009 § ‡ Comments °

Weekend reading

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 [...]

Posted 13 September 2009 § ‡ Comments °

My favorite finance papers and why bubble valuations aren’t coming back

I don’t spend a lot of time reading academic finance papers, but there are a few that have been permanently etched into my brain. I have Chris Malloy at Harvard Business School to thank for this. His behavioral finance class ranked up there at London Business School, only to be beaten by David Yermack’s highly [...]

Posted 10 September 2009 § Finance § Venture Capital ‡ Comments °

What I’m reading this week

Global VC blog directory (Larry Cheng) Venture capitalists who aren’t jerks (WSJ) Goldman and hits driven businesses (The Atlantic) US colleges aren’t graduating their students (NY Times) Do buyouts still create value (Journal of Finance) Why Jon Moulton quit, in his own colorful words (PEHub) What happens in financial markets when everyone runs for the [...]

Posted 10 September 2009 § ‡ Comments °