Tags: economics
Tags: economics
Short reality!
Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:55 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
Bloomberg reports that Mattel’s market cap, “helped by rising sales of Matchbox and Hot Wheels toy cars,” is now larger than GM’s. [Tags: mattel gm toys cars business economics ]
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Oil prices: The spreadsheet
Posted Friday June 13, 2008, 12:53 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
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Accounting for the future
Posted Thursday March 20, 2008, 5:09 am, Over one day old at IFTF's Future Now
The second of the two studies is more interesting here, because it asks whether doing things like writing business plans and creating sales projections make entrepreneurs more realistic or less realistic in their views of the future.
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Art as Personal Business in the City: Brooklyn's Creative Freelance Economy
Posted Thursday March 6, 2008, 3:58 am, Over one day old at IFTF's Future Now
Our phase one report for Intuit on the Future of Small Business forecast continued expansion number of personal businesses. According to the Center for an Urban Future, "freelance businesses has been a faster growing part of the Brooklyn economy than employer-based businesses".
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Giant Piles of Data. Just in Time for Christmas
Posted Tuesday December 12, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old at The Glass is Too Big
Photo: Ashley Jonathan Clements | | Google and tons of other sites have made finding individual facts easy. The one you swear you've seen before, is just a click away. The average rainfall for Boise in August. | | Trivia and individual facts have never been so close to our fingertips.
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Economic Positioning: A Lost Baggage Example
Posted Wednesday November 15, 2006, 12:46 pm, Over one day old at B2B Insight Blog
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Made with more love than money
Posted Friday November 10, 2006, 3:12 pm, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
With the trend of startup funding and team size shrinking so much, we'll end up with several startups each - a kind of personal portfolio theory - lots of small ideas, made because we can, some of which will blossom.
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Self-evolving systems - threat or promise?
Posted Friday November 10, 2006, 3:12 pm, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
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The BPI gets tangled in DRM
Posted Wednesday October 11, 2006, 4:21 am, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
BPI reassures consumers:?We will not sue you for filling your iPod with music you have bought yourself" Failure to extend copyright term "could turn an export into an import? - akin to scattering Britain's crown jewels of music across the globe.
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Net Neutrality and copyright
Posted Wednesday October 11, 2006, 4:21 am, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
Liberal Economist The value of packets transferred is only clear to the originator and sender, not to the intermediary carrying them, so maximum utility is realised by enabling the endpoints to set values, not the network operator.
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