Sunday, July 29, 2007
Friday, July 27, 2007
The US Dollar: On the Edge of the Abyss
The US Dollar: On the Edge of the Abyss
Watch the USD fall below 80 and you have witnessed the beginning of the end of the dollar.
Are business plans over rated
How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry
Monday, July 23, 2007
Entreprenuers and Equity split
The Equity Equation
An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of
your startup. Should you take it? You're about to hire your first
employee. How much stock should you give him?
These are some of the hardest questions founders face. And yet
both have the same answer:
1/(1 - n)
Awesome one
Market stat based on the day of the week.
July 20, 2007
The Strangest Market Stat You’ll Read All DaySince the beginning of the 2006, here are the cumulative S&P 500 returns by days of the week:
Monday 1.40%
Tuesday -0.36%
Wednesday 18.72%
Thursday 4.36%
Friday -0.61%So what’s the deal with Hump Day? It’s responsible for over
three-quarters of the S&P 500’s return. And today’s data point will
make it even more.
Told ya it was a strange stat.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Wealth in desh :-)
Bombay Shining - Sepia Mutiny
According to the latest Forbes ranking, the global center of desi wealth is Bombay, not Silicon Valley (thanks, WGIIA).
India is the only South Asian country with billionaire private citizens
(though a Sri Lankan Tamil émigré to Malaysia made the list), and
Bombay has the most.Vinod Khosla fell below the cutoff, as did most desi American techies except Ram Shriram,
an angel investor in Google who is now apparently the wealthiest desi
in the U.S. So with India’s recent economic growth, Indians are making
more money by staying home than emigrating, quite a reversal, even
though most who emigrated were not born into ultra-wealthy families.
And these figures are in dollars, not even adjusted for purchasing
power in the desh.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
10 articles for bloggers
10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once) | Performancing.com
1. How to Write Magnetic Headlines
In my view, headlines are the most important aspect of blogging both
from a reader standpoint and an SEO standpoint. Brian Clark has written
the authoritative guide to Headline writing, and if you haven't read it
yet, let me just suggest that you should easily be able to double your
readership and search traffic just by following his suggestions.2. How Can 10 Simple Articles Change Your Life?
read more from the headline
Monday, July 16, 2007
On chinas economy for next decades
Broken China
Broken China
Beijing can't clean up the environment, rein in stock speculation, or police its companies.
Paul you nailed it
Paul Kedrosky: VCs are Lying Buffoons, Part XXXIV
Why VCs are lying buffoons, Part XXXIV in a series. Collect 'em all:
But a lot of times VCs ... say they have all of these strategic relationships and will make all of these introductions and then it doesn't happen.
What?! You're kidding!