Archive for August, 2009

Managing the Online Identify of a Venture Capital/Private Equity Firm

Seth Levine has posted the slides from his portion of Thomson Reuters Buyouts recent webinar on "Boosting Returns with Web 2.0 Technology".  Also, Buyouts magazine has posted a detailed summary of the panel.  You can get a sense of my slides on the deal origination page of my site.   
VC/PE: Managing Your Online Identity
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On August 16th, 2009

What is valuable when so much is free?

(Bill McIntyre via Flickr)

Chris Anderson's new book "Free" has restarted the controversy over pricing of goods, particularly digital goods.  This led me to re-read Kevin Kelly's piece on "Better Than Free".  He argues that "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."  I like his taxonomy of 8 "generative" Read More...

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On August 12th, 2009

Free comics from the Federal Reserve: economics, banking, foreign trade, etc.

My wife and I just ordered some comic books from the Federal Reserve on topics that we think our children should learn about:
- banking
- monetary policy
- currency
- barter
- checks and electronic payments
- and most important to their future (sadly), inflation
 
These comic books are useful educationally, particularly in the current environment, and single copies are free.  Read More...

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On August 10th, 2009