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- Free Food Perks at Work: Why Catering is Key (blog.betterworks.com)
In healthy corporate cultures, a well-fed staff is a well-fueled and happy machine of productivity. For this reason, more and more companies are bringing free food perks to the table for their employees. Gone are the…
- Lord of the Flies, Maslow's Hierarchy and Better Employee Benefits (blog.betterworks.com)
- Anatomy of a Linux hypervisor (ibm.com)
- Tech Policy Summit May 11-13, 2009 (techpolicycentral.com)
Hosted by BusinessWeek columnist Steve Wildstrom, Tech Policy Summit 2009 offers you a chance to network with an exclusive group of thought leaders while gaining a better understanding of how the innovation policies of…
- Building a Geospatial Information System (ibm.com)
- Linux kernel advances (ibm.com)
- Multiprocessing with Python (ibm.com)
- Develop an Ajax Chat program (ibm.com)
- Optimism Porn – used car prices (brontecapital.blogspot.com)
The biggest single determinant of losses in a subprime auto finance book is not loss rate – it is severity – the loss after the car is auctioned. I am not about to buy non distressed auto securitisations or anything –…
- One-on-One with Jim Breyer (alumni.hbs.edu)
Are entrepreneurs born or made? It’s a combination. There are some gifted entrepreneurs who have an intuitive sense of how products, customers, and markets will collide three to five years out. They bring intellectual…
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Unlike other venture capitalists. Rock has few private investors as clients and hence is under little outside pressure. Rock invests slices of his own fortune and the money of a few close friends, limiting himself to…
- Michael Arrington speaks with Peter Thiel (techcrunch50.com)
The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to succeed. The CEO’s salary sets a cap for everyone else. If it is set at a high level, you end up burning a whole lot more money. It aligns his interest with the equity…
- The view from Silicon Valley (money.cnn.com)
True characterizations of all the current environment, but the most interesting part of the article: But while death and failure are part of the Valley psyche, so too is optimism. Peter Thiel thinks people are…
- Petrodollar Warfare & Collapse of U.S. Dollar Imperialism (chuckcoppes.com)
From an international perspective the EU economy is much more fiscally balanced than the US. The EU does more trade with OPEC than the US and would certainly welcome a monopoly petroeuro exchange system. This would have…
- The U.S. Economy according to Thiel (youtube.com)
Peter Thiel says the U.S. may be facing several years of slow growth or stagnation. However, in a globalized and very competitive world, there are surprisingly big constraints on political action that can lead us toward…
- If you gave me $1 billion to knock off Snickers, I can’t do it. (undergroundvalue.blogspot.com)
"What if you could buy 10% of one of your classmates and their future earnings? You wouldn't buy the ones with the highest IQ, the best grades, etc, but the most effective. You like people who are generous, go out of…
- Carl Icahan on Economics (oyc.yale.edu)
Mr. Carl Icahn, a prominent activist investor in corporate America, talks about his career and how he became interested in finance and involved in shareholder activism. He discusses his thoughts about today's economy…
- Nurture the Unpredictable (newsweek.com)
Today, the world is in the midst of an economic, social and environmental crisis that is overturning much conventional wisdom. The best course of action is to tackle it head-on with new ideas and paradigms, fostering an…