Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I am giving my son a remote control helicopter (nothing fancy, he’s only 4 1/2) for Christmas. What’s interesting is that when I was a child (or when I was a young version of a child) something like this would be a toy. Today I look at it entirely differently, much in the same way [...]
It would appear that critics of the music industry’s approach and the music industry itself are in alignment. Someday this will be a case studied in business schools titled “the music industry’s circular firing squad”. It’s hard to imagine an approach that not only did little to address the underlying problem at hand, but at [...]
Let ‘em eat cake, I say. Santa has a lot of chutzpah to fly around in a private sleigh while the rest of us rubes make due with commercial coach. The old Santa model just isn’t efficient… how can you be competitive delivering on just one day of the year when I can order from [...]
BusinessWeek gets it wrong, rapidly escalating valuations complicate hiring when looking at stock options alone. Options are priced on actual events, like a financing event, that a company experiences; options are not priced according to what the Board believes they are worth. Therefore, Facebook’s $15b valuation following the Microsoft investment was a bigger hiring issue [...]
CalPERS has presided over a 24% loss on their investment portfolio in the last 6 months and not surprisingly they don’t wish to draw attention to it. As a result of heavy borrowing to finance real estate investments, CalPERS is actually on the hook for a 103% loss on real estate, in other words these [...]