hand baskets.

dear hand baskets, When people ask what I’m buying these days, I respond: “hand baskets.” “Hand baskets?” “Yeah, everything seems to be going to hell in a hand basket these days, so I might as well own stock”. (Credit goes to my boy Graig for coming up with that one) But still, Mr. Basket, you […]

grossly bad form.

dear wall street journal, It’s not you, it’s me. Actually, that’s a lie..it’s totally your fault. No one ever means that line, do they? WSJ -you’re one of the last major papers that actually matters. New York Times. Wall Street Journal. USA Today. Only the national brands will definitely survive no matter what happens with […]

p.s. a volt of lightning!

PS – This is a great long article about the Chevy Volt  worth reading. If nothing else, it’s a different perspective on GM.

google go next.

Good article on fortune.com by Adam Lashinsky on where Google goes from here. Definitely worth a read. It’s a fascinating question. Google was started by smart guys with a good idea. They stumbled into a helluva advertising model that printed money based on intent (goto.com actually invented it). Google then used these funds to build […]

nails & writing.

I’ve been delinquent with blogging! Life in SF is good. Maybe that’s why. I’ve been running around, have broken my regular blogging routine, so it was easy for that to deteriorate into zero updates. I’ve spent most of my free time working on the book. I’ve got what I feel is a great outline and […]

imagination.

We all want to capture someone else’s interest. Marketers. Managers. Singles. Parents. Children. Pets. Everyone. My rule of thumb for getting people intensely interested is pretty simple: Capture their imagination. I took advantage of living in a major city yesterday. I saw a movie before it opened in wide-release. The Assassination of Jesse James by […]

begin act iv.

Have you ever thought of your life in acts? I have. I’m about to start act iv in my life and it’s exciting. Act I was growing up. I’ll end this at freshman year in high school. Without going into a ton of detail (maybe that’s another post) let’s say that like most driven people, […]

efficient markets? ha!

The stock markets for the past 3 weeks has been just fascinating. And by fascinating, I mean quite crazy and on most days, quite painful. I studied Finance at Rutgers, and we learned a lot about how “efficient” the markets were. How all available and whispered about information is efficiently synthesized by the vast army […]

tech bubble 2.0: coming soon to a market near you?

I shudder to even type the words, but I wonder if another stock market tech bubble is forming. The last time we were here, at the end of the last decade, everyone’s cash flowed into tech and telecom because it seemed like a sure thing. Exuberance all around. Today, the exuberance is missing– but the […]

Surya on Marketing: Facebook/MySpace

This post is from: Surya on Marketing (suryaonmarketing.com) I’m making a prediction. By the end of 2007, there will be a slew of mainstream media stories on Facebook vs MySpace. I further believe that they will have the tone that the previous MySpace vs Friendster stories had: breathless accounts of how Friendster (and this time, […]