I saw this tweet from Charlie O'Donnell yesterday: LinkedIn pulled avatars of @laughingsquid @fredwilson @hunterwalk and me down. Isn't our "professionalism" for our networks to judge? It's true. Here's my LinkedIn profile this morning: My avatar is gone, taken down.... Full story...
It's Monday, time for MBA Mondays. Last week, I posted about The Present Value Of Future Cash Flows and in the comments Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote: That being said, before even covering NPV, I would have first talked about the time.
About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash. I took more heat for that post than anything else I've written here other than political posts.
I was at a board meeting of a non profit this week and the talk turned to "advocacy" and whether or not the non profit should be doing any of that.
I don't exactly know why, but I've noticed a significant increase in the amount of "liking" going on in the comments recently.
I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about "rewarding checkins" in this post on Business Insider: Foursquare's [success] depends on providing "the most incentive for a user to check-in.
My family is tired of hearing me talk about "The Cone Of Silence". This is an electronics product I'd love to have.
My friend Pravin sent me an email last week after my "How To Calculate A Return On Investment" post. He said: I wish there was a class that I could take that would teach me how to properly research stocks/companies.
Mark Pincus, founder/CEO of our portfolio company Zynga, is interviewed in today's NY Times on the topic of leadership.
Yesterday the President went to Baltimore and spoke to the House Republican retreat. I saw a bunch of tweets and headlines about it yesterday so I used the "add to boxee" bookmarklet and this morning I sat down and watched.