Private Equity
2 min read · 17 September 2008
6 min read · 16 September 2008
Recruiter Denise Palmieri routinely sees job candidates getting in their own way. Here are her five tips to get out of your own way.
6 min read · 16 September 2008
4 min read · 11 September 2008
2 min read · 10 September 2008
Will the iPhone platform help anyone make money? The underlying questions are 1) What is a platform? 2) Is the iPhone a platform or just a fun piece of hardware? Last year Facebook evolved from an application to a platform enabling a gold rush of investment in application vendors and new venture funds focused on monetizing the new platform. Presumably being a platform is better than being an application, as anybody old enough to remember the Flying Toaster screensaver can attest. After near-ubiquity in the PC era, Wes Boyd and better half Joan Blades (who would later go on to found MoveOn.org) in 1997 sold Berkeley Systems -- including its Flying Toaster application -- for a reported $13.7 million. In 2008 dollars, this would be a Series A. Applications were not a way to make money in the 1990s.
4 min read · 09 September 2008
3 min read · 05 September 2008
Focusing on the supply side of the petroleum markets isn’t the right way to come at this, at least from my perspective. There are more than 300 million acres of public land now available for oil leasing in the United States. Oil companies are currently sitting idle on nearly 70 million of those acres, so there’s plenty of room for new drilling and exploration – we don’t need to add more acreage to the mix.
6 min read · 02 September 2008
3 min read · 28 August 2008
6 min read · 24 August 2008
