Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
yeah the “dwindling” coverage of the SF Ballet is a real bitch… “We’ve lost a lot,” said Hellman, who specifically bemoaned dwindling reporting on subjects like the San Francisco Ballet, local business openings and vetting of political candidates. “We’re going to be meeting an unmet need.” [From Hellman to invest $5 million in journalism nonprofit]
Cadillac, despite considerable progress on quality and performance issues (e.g. Cadzilla anyone?) has another major problem that is again entirely of it’s own making… they can’t compete with lease deals offered by other manufacturers. Just 6% of Cadillac customers in August leased a vehicle as opposed to buying one, according to Edmunds.com. That compares to [...]
Feedly is one of my favorite services, not only does it offer a highly polished presentation layer that makes reading my subscriptions more pleasing but it has a nice set of social features for sharing content and with their latest release a really compelling set of search and topic exploration features. If you have been [...]
In August of last year I wrote about A123 Systems and their planned IPO, it’s out of the gate today and what a ride as the IPO was oversubscribed with the market cap right now approaching $1.8 billion and showing little signs of slowing down. Energy storage is the most potent sector in cleantech because [...]