Posts Tagged ‘ financials ’

3D – I’ll bring over my glasses

3D continues to be a hot topic on SOTB.  Why? Because it has all the right ingredients to be totally stuck. Until 3DTV’s don’t need glasses it’s just too much of a hassle to have your friends and family over. Here’s a great quote from the NY Times The glasses go for a premium — around $150 [ READ MORE ]

Everyone has their place

Everyone has their place in the financing ecosystem of start ups. VC models thrive on certain assumptions and everyone contributes different things, each with some additional risks that other players don’t have and upside that others don’t have as well. Angel investors are a unique bunch. Typically, they have some personal money and they want to [ READ MORE ]

Why Google isn’t a good business

Google’s latest earnings while good they weren’t great.  They were above expectations but they didn’t knock it out of the park. Think of Berkshire Hathaway or GE and how many different lines of business they have and how each one is presumably a thriving business – errrr I guess that’s why NBC is gone now.  [ READ MORE ]

Shopping has become a calendarable event

Forget about the retail doom and gloom that has been forecast for the the Holiday entire ‘09 season. One company isn’t sitting on its laurels, putting on the kneepads, getting on all fours and waiting for the pain — they are playing rainmaker for themselves and trying to make something happen. Gap, Inc., owners of [ READ MORE ]

Penny on the Highway (a sliding scale of worth)

Not all pennies are created equal and in fact, not all pennies have the same value at different times.  Depending on where in the lifecycle of the company, what once was a penny well found, actually can later become a huge distraction of little value and actually prohibiting you from moving forward. It sounds reminiscent of [ READ MORE ]

Caught this Ad on Train, but destined to get stuck.

Caught a very slick advertisement for Factset on a train the other day, highlighting their financial data services.  It had a great screen shot of lots of financial information about companies that you would normally see. It looked fast, slick and powerful. The screen shot (and 50% of the ad) was on a Blackberry screen, so [ READ MORE ]