Much has been written about crowd and group behavior in the investment industry, but one aspect that has received little attention is what has been called ‘emotional contagion.’ As the term suggests, people can infect each other behaviorally, and in the investment sector, that can cost everyone a lot of money.
The term ‘contagion’ is accurate [...]
Filed under: News on February 11th, 2010 @ 11:18 am
Tagged with: Business, consumer, economy, entrepreneur, insights, investing, marketing, strategies
BusinessWeek points to some compelling research published by the National Venture Capital Association that highlights the true impacts that Venture-backed startups are having on the US economy. The overall findings support the growing importance of the entrepreneurial system, which is exciting news for the industry as a whole and shoul help to provide insights into future [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 9:15 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, entrepreneur, growth, industry, insights, jobs, National Venture Capital Association, NVCA, research, startup, success, sustainability, US, venture capital, venture-backed
No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]
I just read some insightful comments from Brad Feld, picking up on an idea that was originally championed by Paul Graham back in April – The Founders Visa. Under this conceptual program, entrepreneurs who were in the process of developing start-ups would be granted special visas, enabling them to remain in the country.
Given the United [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 14th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Tagged with: Brad Feld, Business, economy, effective, entrepreneur, Founders Visa, immigration, industry, innovation, insights, jobs, opportunities, opportunity, Paul Graham, people, progress, start-up, startup
Some interesting insights coming from Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch today, discussing what he refers to as “The Revenue Dilemma” for internet start-ups like Twitter, that innovate and suddenly dominate an emerging market. Though we often joke about wildly popular companies that lack any means of generating cash flow, the paradox that these businesses often [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 9th, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
Tagged with: Business, free, innovation, insights, internet, markets, monetize, networks, revenue model, revenue streams, service, start-up, sustainability, Twitter
Wired has an extremely insightful article on an emerging trend that they refer to as the “Good Enough Revolution” or “MP3 Effect,” a shift in consumer thinking that favors ease of use, continuous availability and low price over different manifestations of quality.
Within the marketplace, this paradigm has been extremely successful at reaching the widest possible [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 2nd, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Tagged with: consumer, effective, Good Enough Revolution, insights, markets, MP3 effect, Pareto Principle, product, quality, service, success, Technology, thought, trends
An insightful editorial from the Washington Post authored by John Doerr, partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jeff Immelt, chairman and chief executive of General Electric, points to the tremendous opportunities in the market for Green Tech solutions and America’s failure capitalize by taking the lead on innovation in this [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News, Technology on August 5th, 2009 @ 9:07 am
Tagged with: clean energy, costs, economy, efficiency, efficient, energy, entrepreneur, fundamental, fundamentals, global, government, Green Tech, infrastructure, innovation, innovative, insights, opportunities, opportunity, renewable energy, resources
I’ve been highlighting some of thoughts from around the web on topics ranging from business and philanthropy to art and society. I hope that by sharing these insights, I’m contributing to the pool of knowledge that is freely accessible to everyone online and creating an environment for discussion. To that end, I’ve recently participated in [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Tagged with: art, discussion, forum, insights, interview, knowledge, opportunity, philanthropist, philanthropy, sharing, The Importance of Art, thought, video, web
In the interest of sharing knowledge and creating a more active discussion on my site, I wanted to take a moment and collect some of my insights on business, culture and philanthropy from around the web.
“By inspiring communities, motivating organizations, and equipping local leaders with programs and facilities, we can make a difference in the [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Business, Expertise, News, Philanthropy on July 27th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Tagged with: Business, communication, Community, global, innovation, innovative, insights, people, philanthrop, philanthropy, process, sharing, strategy, success
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.