Month: December 2007

Pity the poor fools…

I’ve been meaning to post this link for a few days now.  I hope the identities of the participating students were kept secret…"Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists."‘ As Paul Kedrosky is fond of…

The DYP’s are coming! The DYP’s are coming!

I spent a few hours this past week at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business Entrepreneurship event.  Apart from making fun of them on day one (typical business school — they’d figured out the sponsors, glossy handouts and lots of events,…

The many stages of “Early Stage”

Folks talk about "early stage" as though it’s a clearly defined and encapsulated process, like birth, puberty or death.  But there are in fact many stages of "early stage" and I thought it might be worthwhile to lay them out…

Bubblicious…

Just saw this and thought it was great…  Enjoy! Update:  the original video apparently got taken down…  If the link above doesn’t work, try this one:

Why Amazon.com should buy Dictionary.com

They are clearly confused on the meaning of the word "startup".  Dictionary.com says that startup means "A business or an undertaking that has recently begun operation".  Sounds good to me. On with the rant. I mentioned briefly last week that…