January 2011
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#SharePost Prices #LinkedIn Shares at $30.79
“We are pleased to inform you that SharesPost’s affiliated broker dealer has completed its auction of 95,500 shares of the Common Stock of LinkedIn Corporation. The response of the SharesPost community to the auction was substantial and the auction was significantly oversubscribed. A clearing price of $30.79 was established at the auction.”
Wonder what price the public market IPO...
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“Retail Renaissance: In a world where online and the Internet is growing, we will...”
– exchange4media rewind 2010 »
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“Throughout my startup-related career I have repeatedly run into very successful...”
– Reaction Wheel: Don’t let the dumb money lead
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“Light bulbs, of course, are only the latest in a long line of curbs against our...”
– Tea Party Activists Lambast Light Bulb Laws Passed by…Bush! : Greentech Media
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Got to love Bloomberg's Response to the Press Re:...
This A.M., during Bloomberg’s press conference after last night’s snow dump, several reporters seemed insistent on asking about how the Regent exams originally scheduled for today would be re-scheduled.
At one point one reporter asked whether the students would need to re-prepare for a rescheduled set of exams, to which Bloomberg responded appropriately testily that if they know the...
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“I would like to see an option from Netflix for physical media only,” Aiden...”
– Netflix Subs Lobby for ‘DVD-Only’ Option | homemediamagazine.com
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“In a few months, the British royal family will be yet again rebranded and...”
– The King’s Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
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“The amount of information entering our consciousness at any instant is referred...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Moderating abundance
“Smarter Weight Loss Imagine Junk Food
ImageStock Think about chocolate and your...”
– Smarter in 2011 - Galleries - The Daily Beast
“It’s been a while since road trips involved hard-to-fold maps and...”
– Smarter in 2011 - Galleries - The Daily Beast
“I have the opposite problem with Chua. I believe she’s coddling her children....”
– Amy Chua Is a Wimp - NYTimes.com
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“As the technology allows soldiers to pull in more information, it strains their...”
– Military Struggles to Harness a Flood of Data - NYTimes.com
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“What the “Chinese mom” debate swirling around Amy Chua’s book...”
– Amy Chua’s Chinese Moms Controversy: Response in China - The Daily Beast
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“Tellingly, last year saw a decrease in the numbers of high-school students...”
– Amy Chua’s Chinese Moms Controversy: Response in China - The Daily Beast
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“But the really big question—and one that the “Chinese mom” debate doesn’t...”
– Amy Chua’s Chinese Moms Controversy: Response in China - The Daily Beast
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Amazing Happenings at #TedX CalTech
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Just saw a hilarious parody of “Millionaire” with Kip #Thorne, John #Preskill and a special cameo appearance by Stephen #Hawking…
Remarkable speeches, including
Sean Carroll on Cosmology and the Arrow of Time,
Lenny Susskin on remember Feynman,
Tony Hey on Feynman and Computation, and
Scott Aaronson’s very dry & biting attack on physicists.
Corporate Policies Run Amok --
Bank employee... →
“She was fired after informing her superiors that in her spare time, under a pseudonym, she wrote historical fiction and blogged about it. Writing novels is apparently her passion outside of work.” — Fierece Finance
Can you roll back the clock on the online airfare... →
“American is forcing a situation where you almost have to roll back the clock [to] where it makes it more difficult for the consumer to access comprehensive fare and schedule information,” said Mike McCormick, executive director of the National Business Travel Association
“The cash-flow multiple sell price — a key business strength indicator...”
– MediaPost Publications Media Deals Up in ‘10, But Value Drops 01/07/2011
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Goldman's Facebook Deal Is Worse Than Toxic... →
“If you’re one of those investors, here’s the deal in a nutshell: You get to buy shares, forking over 5 percent of any possible gains, on top of a 4 percent placement fee and a 0.5 percent expense reserve fee (so you’re down 10 percent before the game starts) in a private company that doesn’t have to disclose any pertinent financial information to you or any regulator...
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Ouch! →
fred-wilson:
“I’d steal something back from him, if I could find something I liked.”
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Paul Westerberg, when asked about Tom Petty’s nicking of the lyric “rebel without a clue” from the Replacements song “I’ll Be You.” (via newspeedwayboogie)
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“The Pentagon had predicted that China wouldn’t have a stealth fighter for...”
– China stealth fighter jet: China’s development of stealth fighter takes U.S. by surprise - latimes.com (http://lat.ms/fSnITr)
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CBS and Boxee Tie-Up
fred-wilson:
“In a step forward for television episode sales, Boxee said Thursday that CBS would allow it to begin selling episodes through its software platform later in the year.”
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Boxee and CBS Make a Deal on Content - NYTimes.com
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“Conspicuously absent from this discussion are the cable MSO’s who likely...”
– Al Norman: The Wal-Mart/Netflix Conspiracy: Bad Movie
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“In December 2009 Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German who then worked...”
– WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes
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“Iceland will attract both mainstream media and Wiki Leaks-like organizations to...”
– WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes
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“My point, again, is that Quora is simply a new medium for what’s been going on...”
– Q: What Does Quora Mean For The Future Of Blogging? A: Business As Usual
“[O]ne could hardly conjure up a more bone-headed move than turning the country’s...”
– Guilty Verdict for Khodorkovsky, and Russia - NYTimes.com 