theprodigy

I'd pay for a list of bookmarks from various opinion leaders. If george soros or andreesen bookmarked on a consistent basis content that they read or think is important to read I would be interested in that. What would be good is if they also included a short commentary of the importance.

The value to me is I can get a feel for what some of the most influential people are interested in and what specific information they are using to shape their opinions on various topics.

Twitter is some what like this, but there needs to be good consistent content.

I wonder if there is a criminal management consulting service that exists.

now write out a detailed plan on how to achieve it or it will just be a dream and never be achieved.

I think over the past few years the entrepreneur was in more power than the VC. From a global economic stand point global savings far exceeds global investment by a lot. So you have a lot of capital in the system searching for yield.You would hear so many investors saying there is enough capital, but not enough "good" ideas. This need to find yield for all this capital created a lot of risk taking behavior. Money was cheap and easy to get over the years and that was probably the best time to get funding.

I think this technology is awesome and has a lot of potential, but I don't know if it is easily defensible against the giants like motorola and verifone.

How easily can these companies come up with software and a headphone jack that does the same thing? Most importantly they got a huge distribution channel with all those nokia phone and point of payment device users currently using their existing product.

So if these companies do come out with a product that copies square they can quickly roll it out faster to a market they already have an establish presence in.

This device has huge potential in emerging markets FYI.

Also, in the end I think one of larger companies will buy Square out after a couple of years.

"Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google."

I actually cancelled my wsj online subscription because i would would just type their headlines into a google news search and find free stories of the same topic. I actually told the customer service lady that when she asked why I was canceling.

I don't think twitter is a direct competitor with blogs. As stated in the article "One of the many uses of Twitter is to link to and promote your blog posts (and other people's blog posts, as we grow, so do they, and vice versa."So basically twitter is a tool used to generate or lead traffic to blog posts.

I read economics, business and web 2.0 blogs everyday. Some of the material cannot be covered in 140 characters or it will lack substance. What I do see on twitter is a headline to catch your attention and a link to get more information on another blog.

Twitter can replace blogs that lack substance, ie the teenage girl that writes about her boring life and stupid thoughts on her blog on myspace. This could probably be done in 140 characters or less.

this is actually partially true. A lot of the investors that are putting their money in dubai and the emmirate states do believe that these countries and investments will not fail and the world community will not let them fail. The reason being these places are suppose to be the model for whole islamic world. Showing a vision to the whole islamic community of what is possible when there is strong economic relationship with the global community and the westernized world. A huge catastrophic failure in these areas will greatly hinder globalization in the middle east.

peter thiel has said it before as well. if you don't have solid distribution and you are a consumer internet company your company is worth nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRfBaKAiUM

at 2:37

Who cares if college is frustrating. Stop being a victim. I had the worse teachers, but I did whatever it took to get an A. I didn't care if the teacher didn't have an interesting teaching style i put that aside and tried to learn the material he/she taught. In college, you need the "superficial" good grades just to get your foot in the door.I was autodidactic and learned all the things that really interested me in college on my own. People need to stop being wimps and try harder.

All entrepreneurs need to put their ideas through the "why" test at least 5 times. If you have concrete reasons and answers, then your ideas are good and well thoughtout.

Candidates that can't answer the why test all 5 times needs to think things through a little more.

Damn title got me interested, but she lives without money because she relies on bartering.

it's pretty cool how these smart grids can map out the different load patterns appliances.This is at the core of the privacy debate. That information can show exactly how you are living your life within your home and a lot of other habits as well. Since most of what you do in your home requires energy. I would watch closely to see what these smart grid companies will do with that data.

Agreed

you lose weight by eating fewer calories, then get your metabolism going with exercise on a daily basis. You need to stay disipline to eat the right things and follow your workout goals. It is simple in theory, but hard to execute for most.