Build Your Sportfolio Of Athletes At OneSeason (6)
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Forget the stock market, it’s falling apart. Invest your money in OneSeason instead, a newly launched San Francisco-based startup that lets you invest real money in professional athletes. Alex Rodriguez is a steal at $7.00 per share ($17.6 million total value). I just bought one share of Kobe Bryant for $7.48 (he’s valued at $77.6 million). The company was founded by CEO Mike Sroka and CTO DJ Burdick with $250,000 in seed funding from investor ...
Taking photographs vs. giving photographs (25)
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Things flip. Many cultures long viewed photographs with fear, worrying that a piece of the soul disappeared when a photo was taken. Today, celebrities hire publicists who have no other job but to get their photographs to appear in print. Oprah doesn't pay authors to appear on her show, they pay publicists for the privilege... even though they are "giving away" all the ideas in their book for free. It's a tricky line to walk. ...
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Steven Correy said:
I thought about that the last time I went to a shop, they ask me to put my camera in my bag. Just in case I wanted to take pictures.... If I want to spy I buy a tiny camera and take pictures, or I just Google it
When you stand for something (51)
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People and brands and organizations that stand for something benefit as a result. Standing for something helps you build trust, makes it easier to manage expectations and aids in daily decision making. Standing for something also makes it more fun to do your gig, because you're on a mission, doing something that matters. Of course, there's a cost. You can't get something for nothing. It's frustrating to watch marketers, politicians and individuals fall into the ...
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Margus said:
"To really stand for something, you must make difficult decisions, mostly about what you don't do. We don't ship products like that, we don't stand for employees like that ("you're fired"), we don't fix problems like that.It's so hard to stand up, to not compromise, to give up an account or lose a vote or not tell a journalist what they want to hear."
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Sue said:
Web transparency means eventually fakers get caught. Whatever your company culture is, be proud of it - there is a market for it.
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Grant Shellen said:
Seth Godin urges you to stand for something, and I agree. I've had more professional success and personal satisfaction on those occasions when I've stuck to my guns.
Focus on Things Under Your Control (7)
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I've got a little end of day advice for everyone out there that is getting whipsawed around by all the craziness in the financial markets. While this is aimed at entrepreneurs, it applies to everyone. Focus on things under your control. When I was a teenager, my dad said something to me that has stuck with me and informs many of the decisions I make and things I decide to spend my time on. He ...
We Need Price Transparency In The Splurge (4)
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I got caught up last night and this morning on the splurge legislation. My favorite summary was from Henry on Clusterstock. In that post, Henry wrote:The Treasury has complete discretion over the prices it pays for crap assets (the most important provision in the whole document as far as the taxpayers are concerned). "The Secretary make such purchases at the lowest price that the Secretary determines to be consistent with the purposes of this Act." ...
My BailOut Solution - I’m In For At Least $50mm (12)
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As you can tell by the number of the posts on this subject, I think we are in a very serious financial situation in this country. It’s bad for everyone and like many others while I think the Bailout is necessary, I would prefer any solution that doesn’t involve the government. Unfortunately, I don’t think a pure market based solution is possible. That said, I considered what it would take for me to part with ...
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John S said:
Exactly what I have been suggesting. I just don't have the $50MM to back it up like Cuban
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JohnMcG said:
As they say, money talks...
The Bailout Alternative: Virtual Mark to Market (3)
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According to some pundits, the simplest solution to our economic crisis is to suspend or abolish the mark to market accounting rules. For those unfamiliar. Mark to market is where a company reprices their assets on a daily basis to the most recent market transaction price. If asset prices are falling, this means that the total value of assets on a banks or other company’s books falls. When the total value of assets fall, then ...
Now It's Getting Interesting: Google (GOOG) Gphone Features Amazon Music Store (AMZN) (2)
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LIVE Android Unveiling Coverage Here Google's Gphone won't be officially unveiled for another 30 minutes or so, but more and more details are emerging. The latest: Amazon has confirmed that the new phone will come preloaded with its MP3 music store (kudos to VentureBeat for getting this yesterday). If Amazon and Google integrate this well, this will make the Gphone at least as compelling a music player as Apple's iPhone, which is saying something. The ...
Google Maps Launches NYC Subway/Public Transit Directions (2)
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Google has announced that their Google Maps product now supports public transit directions. This is very exciting news for me as a person who loves public transit. In my testing this morning, I give the system a grade of C. It's a good first start and will get you to your destination but they have a lot of work to do. For example, there are many places where multiple trains share the same tracks but ...
Figure out what you want to do everyday for the rest of your life... and do that! (1)
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Amazon Gets In On the Content Delivery Business (11)
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It was only a matter of time before Amazon would decide to release a Content Delivery Network, and according to the company in an official statement released today, it has done just that. Designed to complement its S3 storage service and EC2 web services, the CDN will be available later this year and will provide users with a high performance method of distributing content to end users. Amazon claims it will have low latency and ...
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Sameer. said:
There you go! didn't tell us @ LA Startup when I was asking them about this :)
Fantasy Hockey Software Anyone? (1)
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Last night, I got an email from Peter Schoenke about RotoWire’s Fantasy Hockey Draft Software, so i thought I would write an article about all the fantasy hockey draft software out there. Well, unless my skills using the internet machine have diminished (which is entirely possible considering the amount of cold medicine I have taken this week), there are not really not that many options out there. The two that i did find are: RotoWire ...
The World Is Flat, Stupid: Time for America to Hire a CTO (1)
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The role of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in a company is an incredibly critical, but poorly understood one. Unless a member of the founding team is a strong technology visionary that occupies that role, many start-ups neglect the position. Instead, they assume the CIO or VP of Engineering can be responsible for setting technology strategy as well as delivering on it – an impossible burden even for the most talented technology manager. Within our ...
LeaveWallStreetJoinAStartup.com (8)
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For years, one of the biggest challenges facing New York city based startup companies has been the competition for technical talent. It was very difficult for a venture-backed startup to compete with the compensation packages offered by the big investment banks. Stock options had a hard-time overcoming oversized cash bonuses. While no one is happy with the turmoil we're seeing facing the financial services sector, and no one is happy to see mass layoffs, this ...
Stock Market Meltdowns - Why they will happen again and again and again (22)
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There is one major problem on Wall Street, that until solved, will result in meltown after meltdown in future years. I can't say if the meltdown monkey will hit every 2,3, 5 or 10 years. But I can say with certainty that it will happen again. Why ? Because Risk and Reward have been decoupled for CEOs on Wall Street. If you are the CEO of a major public company, once you qualify for your ...
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Man has a point...
TC50 (Demo Pit): Ultimate Football Network Will Help You Manage Your Fantasy Football Leagues (6)
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The Ultimate Football Network tries to harness the popularity of fantasy football and turn it into a worthwhile business. The only problem is that the company isn’t quite prepared to do that —yet. But it has a gameplan. As football season kicks into gear, millions of fantasy players from all over the United States are joining leagues and trying to find the right players each week. But as Ultimate Football Network explains, that’s not as ...
Networks Finally Warming Up To Live Sports On The Web, Fans Loving It (3)
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Great news for sports fans: It's shaping up to be the year that broadcast networks finally get comfortable with the idea of putting live games on the Web. Not long ago, the networks were most leery about the idea of putting sports on the Web -- for fear of losing TV viewers, which pay the enormous bills for broadcast rights. Now, simulcasting live sports on the Web is de rigeur, and the networks -- CBS ...
TC50: Exit Strategies, M&A Uncovered (8)
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TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde led a panel today with some of the biggest names in mergers and acquisitions, who have collectively been involved in deals totaling billions of dollars. Included on the panel were Michael Marquez (EVP of Corporate Development at CBS), David Lawee (Head of Corporate Development at Google), and Ted Wang (Partner at Fenwick & West LLP). Heather is also a M&A expert, as she was SVP Mergers & Acquisitions at Fox Interactive ...
Always Be Testing (2)
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This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Always Be Testing Testing just might be the small business marketers greatest tool - and yet, so few take the time to do it at all. The arguments against robust testing are all but gone - cost is not a factor, lack of tools is not a factor and certainly the Internet has made information about testing readily available. Bryan Eisenberg, author of Always Be Testing, visited with me ...
Google On the Run From the Privacy Cops (6)
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Amid growing scrutiny from government regulators in the U.S and Europe, Google is amending its privacy practices and keeping the IP addresses of consumers who do searches on Google for a shorter period of time. The dominant search engine will keep server log data for only nine months now instead of 18 (which itself was a reduction put in place last year from an indefinite retention period). It will also start anonymizing the data it ...
Path 101: Helping people figure out what to do next: jobs, careers, internships... and life, if we have time. (2) permalink
"There's way too many people in this room right now that are doing stuff they hate. Please stop doing that!" This is really inspiring... and it's exactly the kind of passion for other people's passions that we're putting into Path 101.Shared by Will Cole (19)Contribute comment
