by Tom | Jun 8, 2011 | Business
Short logic (Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal) has some compelling analysis which makes Groupon look like a bubble business (my description). Others call it an insolvent Ponzi scheme. Companies that move away from GAAP have to be suspicious, even if they are...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business
Thoroughly depressing reading on the USPS: it carries 40% of the world’s mail (563m pieces) employing nearly 600k people (second only to Wal-Mart). It made $67bn and a loss. It now sends more junk mail than first class and its business plans are based around...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business, Science
Take a massively important underpinning of physics: symmetry and scale invariance are signs that there may be laws to be found. Apply this to biology and you get the astonishing result that Geoffrey West describes so well: There’s kind of one mammal, and every...
by Tom | Jun 2, 2011 | Business, Listen, Reading
I hadn’t really properly read the background to Ultra Violet (think of it as the industry’s preferred new way for us to buy DVD / Blu-Ray content). What’s different here is that it is designed to work the way we would like to: sharing around the...
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Business, Personal, Reading
Lots of articles seemed to make a theme today: it’s all very well saying you have a new media strategy, but are you really making the most of the opportunities offered to you? First, a thought about social media metrics like followers. If you aren’t...
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Business, Personal, Reading
Lots of articles seemed to make a theme today: it’s all very well saying you have a new media strategy, but are you really making the most of the opportunities offered to you? First, a thought about social media metrics like followers. If you aren’t...
