- Let’s All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can’t Raise Any More Money
- The great lie of these last few years is that anyone can be a tech entrepreneur. We have a shortage of students in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math. Every big company in Silicon Valley is starved for talent. And there is an entire generation of young people who, instead of studying those hard subjects, would rather slap together the fourteenth version of a peer-to-peer car sharing service or alternative taxi service. Because it’s easy and you might get rich quick.
- Bath Salts, Orgies, Murder, and Anti-Virus Software
- For 20 years now, we’ve been fed a steady stream of swashbuckling startup wizards who conjured the first quillion on the back of an envelope. When these people flake away from the companies they founded and find themselves cast adrift with infinite checkbooks, expect weird things to happen.
- Shell Gamification
- I want feedback every time I should use an alias. But why do something reasonable when you have the opportunity to do something ridiculous?
- How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing
- The mergers are occurring because book publishing has proved to be less profitable than the conglomerates had hoped. For most of the past two centuries, Western houses averaged a mere 3 percent annual profit. The new owners had hoped to raise the rate closer to 25 percent, to match those of their other holdings: newspapers, magazines and TV stations (even though these depend on advertising). But try as it might, publishing failed to churn out enough bestsellers.
Interesting Links 2012-12-04
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