Curious About Benjamin Button?
The process through which modern movies are made is fascinating. Over and over we see essentially the same stories, quite literally if you consider the 7 basic movie plot themes, and yet we continue to want to see movies. The adaptions that explore the themes of man vs. himself and man vs. everything else are [...]
A Halford Christmas Letter
Every year about this time we start getting Christmas cards from friends and family with included letters about their goings on for the year. I always enjoy reading them but quietly laugh while thinking of the Halford’s Christmas letter sent to me years ago by a good friend. Dear friends, Merry Christmas and best wishes [...]
Badass RC Planes
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 [...]
Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits
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 [...]
SantaCorp Pleads Case For Bailout
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 [...]
Red Herrings
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, Another Quasi Governmental Entity Mess
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 [...]
Cadillac E-Flex Coming?
Dramatic environmental statement? I’m pretty sure that the 556hp Cadzilla qualifies as a dramatic statement, probably an environmental one as well. It’s been a bad couple of weeks for GM but to give credit where credit is due, they really did one hell of a job revitalizing the Cadillac brand. The CTS-V is a car [...]
They Should Have Let the Error Stand
this is funny. The name of home furnishings retailer Bed Bath & Beyond was misspelled as Bed Beth & Beyond in a Marketplace article Friday on retail liquidations. [From Corrections & Amplifications - WSJ.com]
Ubikwiti – DIY Business Processes
Ubikwiti is, despite a really unfortunate name, a very cool service. In a sentence, this is what I’ve always wanted to do with business mashups, combine off the shelf componentry at the business user level to achieve highly personalized business process models that still accommodated the need for master data and workflow integrity. This is [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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