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Transitioning From One Job To Another

fredwilson | 2010-03-10 12:59:33

Mark Suster just keeps putting out great stuff on his blog. Last night he posted about the tricky issue of transitioning from one job to another. Mark writes the post from the perspective of the entre...

The Public Dashboard

fredwilson | 2010-03-09 13:15:28

I really like how Tumblr publishes some key stats publicly every month in their own stylized dashboard.   I also like the way they foreshadow upcoming product features:  As the old saying goes, ...

The Public Dashboard

fredwilson | 2010-03-09 13:13:26

I really like how Tumblr publishes some key stats publicly every month in their own stylized dashboard.   I also like the way they foreshadow upcoming product features:  As the old saying goes, a ...

Accounting

fredwilson | 2010-03-08 12:41:55

I'm making up the curriculum for MBA Mondays on the fly. The end game is to lay out how to look a businesses, value it, and invest in it. We started with the time value of money and interest rates, we...

Accounting

fredwilson | 2010-03-08 12:39:21

I'm making up the curriculum for MBA Mondays on the fly. The end game is to lay out how to look a businesses, value it, and invest in it. We started with the time value of money and interest rate...
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Sorry, There's No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 13:01:00

Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan believes that the problem for the recording industry is one of demographics. Mulligan uses the fact that the billionth application purchaser on iTunes, 13 year-old Con...

Twitter Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed, As Tweets Were Considered Too Vague

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 11:09:00

Last year, we wrote about how a property management firm in Illinois, Horizon Group Management, had sued a tenant for defamation over a short Twitter message she sent, claiming: "Who said sleeping in...

Did Ok Go Free Itself From EMI?

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 09:00:12

There's been lots of talk about the band Ok Go lately, with its latest album coming out and two viral videos (of the same song) in the last few weeks. Of course, the whole thing has been a bit of a m...

Transmedia Storytelling... With A CwF+RtB Twist

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 06:50:00

Ross Pruden points us to the news that Zen Films, a decade old production house, is launching a new storytelling project, which they admit is partly inspired by the CwF+RtB model that we talk about he...

Rescuecom Declares Victory... In Dropping Its Lawsuit Against Google

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 04:48:38

We've covered some of Rescuecom's bizarre lawsuit against Google for selling Adwords based on Rescuecom's trademarks. The lawsuit has been going on for a while, without Rescuecom getting very far. A...

EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 03:11:22

Last week, there were reports that the EU trade policy folks had decided to stand up for ACTA transparency, and now it looks like they're really doing it. As various reports are noting, a joint resol...

White House Cyber Security Guy: There Is No Cyberwar

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 01:32:06

We recently wrote how some special interests have been playing up the idea that there's some sort of cyberwar going on that the US is losing. Of course, there have been similar claims going back for ...

Where Are The European Regulators In Charge Of Protecting Freedom Of Expression?

MMasnick | 2010-03-10 00:10:00

Michael Scott points us to a blog post by Peter Fleischer, the Global Privacy Counsel for Google -- perhaps better known as one of the three Google execs to be convicted on criminal charges due to a v...

Record Labels Put Out Misleading Study Trying To Get ISPs To Setup Broken Music Streaming Services

MMasnick | 2010-03-09 22:55:00

The record labels have been trying out all sorts of schemes for a while now to try to get ISPs over to its side in propping up their old business models, and the latest is pretty laughable. BPI at th...
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