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January 2010

Battle Lines Drawn — iPad vs Chrome OS

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 8:27pm EST

“We don’t know how to build a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk.” “Netbooks aren’t better at anything.” Those two quotes are both from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The first was during an earnings call in late 2008 when Jobs fielded a question about why Apple wasn’t cutting prices amid the rising success of [...]

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Why You Must Eat Your Own Internet Dogfood!

by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 12:55pm EST

(Below follows an outstanding piece that I consider a must read for startups from Dave McClure.  Be advised: contains a bit of harsh language.) Haven’t really gotten on a rant in awhile… guess i’ve been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i’m back in California for awhile, there’s something i’ve been meaning [...]

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Consumer Sentiment Hits 2 Year High (Welcome Surprise)

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 12:20pm EST

The final consumer sentiment index for January unexpectedly surged to 74.4 — the highest in two years — up from a preliminary January reading of 72.8, the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers announced Friday, according to Reuters.

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US Economy Coming Around (Finally)

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 12:14pm EST

U.S. real GDP rose a much stronger-than-expected 5.7 per cent annualized in Q4, building on a modest 2.2 per cent advance in Q3, and a far cry from the 5.4 per cent slide of a year ago.

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IPO Pipeline is Heating UP…YEA!

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 10:23am EST

Activity in the IPO pipeline reached a two-year record in the fourth quarter of 2009, meeting pre-recession levels with 53 companies entering into registration, 30 IPOs launched and the overall pipeline increasing to 54 registrants seeking to raise $10.3 billion, according to the Ernst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study. This activity jumped from [...]

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Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 9:53am EST

What follows below is an excellent article by Ash Maurya.  Enjoy… Eliminating waste is the fundamental principle of lean thinking. As defined by Womak/Jones in their book “Lean Thinking” (a must-read): Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. Of all resources, there is no resource more valuable than time. Time is [...]

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What a Start-up is really like

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by Eric | Jan 28, 2010, 10:54pm EST

I wasn’t sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups we’d funded. What hadn’t I written about yet? I’m in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I write about startups. I hope the ones on other topics are right, but I [...]

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