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Dan Shapiro » VC insanity, explained
great piece. always important to understand the incentives on the other side of a negotiation.
economics  funding  investing  startup  vc 
11 weeks ago by sogrady
Opinion - Image - NYTimes.com
The Great Regression. whatever your politics, this is a problem.
incomeinequality  economics  nytimes  productivity  compensation 
october 2011 by sogrady
jedberg comments on Your Gold Dollars at Work
the math on running reddit. interesting look at AWS economics.
aws  reddit  cloud  economics 
july 2010 by sogrady
Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing
"Newsweek, under a cloud, is going to the cloud. The site is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing.

Until now, Newsweek.com had been hosted by its parent company, The Washington Post Co. The media company has been trying to cut losses at its magazine division, which recorded $29.3 million in operating losses in 2009. By joining the cloud, Newsweek expects to save close to $500,000 annually."
newsweek  amazon  cloud  economics  adoption 
april 2010 by sogrady
The Thought Leader Interview: Erik Brynjolfsson
"By mid-2009, we already knew that the growth of GDP would be positive, or at least flat. But employment continued to fall. So by just doing the arithmetic, dividing output by employment, we knew in advance that there would be a big productivity number. This was triggered by the recession, but it was not a sudden reversal. It was part of a longer pattern we’ve seen with the recent wave of so-called jobless recoveries. Companies have discovered that they can produce a lot of output without needing as many people."
productivity  economics  hiring  unemployment  technology  erikbrynjolfsson 
march 2010 by sogrady
All wired up
"New business practices are really driving productivity. But one of the great ironies of the information age is that although we have more fine-grained data about the economy, we know less about the true sources of value than we did before. There are many ways companies are adding value to the economy, but it's often showing up as greater consumer value rather than in GDP." - greater enterprise value as well; think open source.
erikbrynjolfsson  mit  economics  gdp  value  measurement  consumer 
march 2010 by sogrady
Cloudonomics.com
i haven't taken it apart yet, but clearly a lot of work went into the math of cloud computing. worth a read.
economics  math  cloudcomputing 
march 2010 by sogrady
750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
"If you pay any attention to the endless debates over intellectual property policy in the United States, you'll hear two numbers invoked over and over again, like the stuttering chorus of some Philip Glass opera: 750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is the annual dollar cost of IP infringement to the U.S. economy. These statistics are brandished like a talisman each time Congress is asked to step up enforcement to protect the ever-beleaguered U.S. content industry. And both, as far as an extended investigation by Ars Technica has been able to determine, are utterly bogus." - sadly, i couldn't be less surprised
economics  copyright  politics  ip  piracy  riaa  mpaa 
january 2010 by sogrady
Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually | Cloudscaling
the calculation certainly qualifies as an estimation, but still, the numbers are interesting
amazon  economics  revenue  aws  ec2 
january 2010 by sogrady
Good Data and Flawed Conclusions - WSJ.com
Simpson's paradox is interesting and highly relevant to those seeking to draw meaningful conclusions from data
simpsonsparadox  statistics  data  economics  unemployment  baseball  econometrics  fallacies  illusions 
december 2009 by sogrady
Ellison: We won’t spin off MySQL by InfoWorld: Yahoo! Tech
very candid and interesting interview with Ellison on MySQL, Sun and other related subjects
larryellison  mysql  sun  economics  oracle  eu 
september 2009 by sogrady
Should Your Organization "Go Google"? - Gina Trapani - HarvardBusiness.org
HBR's take on the Google Apps vs Exchange question is interesting, if only for what it says about the prototypical business person's view on the risks
hbr  googleapps  exchange  notes  economics  security  privacy 
august 2009 by sogrady
Andy Kessler: Why AT&T Killed Google Voice - WSJ.com
"How could AT&T not object? AT&T clings to the old business of charging for voice calls in minutes. It takes not much more than 10 kilobits per second of data to handle voice. In a world of megabit per-second connections, that's nothing—hence Google's proposal to offer voice calls for no cost and heap on features galore." - voice is only 10 kilobits? i hadn't known that.
at&t  googlevoice  bandwidth  economics  telephony  data  iphone  google 
august 2009 by sogrady
The app economy
interesting look at the economics of the ecosystem
economics  apple  iphone  marketplace  closed  open  appstore  itunes 
july 2009 by sogrady
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet
"For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now."
google  facebook  web  economics  search  identity  competition 
june 2009 by sogrady
Microsoft to Google: Get Off of My Cloud - BusinessWeek
what's more challenging - innately, or from a talent acquisition standpoint - scaling, or selling to enterprises?
google  microsoft  cloud  datacenters  businessmodels  economics 
november 2008 by sogrady
Should we have a “floor” price for fossil fuels? -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone
"Lately I’ve seen this idea in several places, that governments should intervene to ensure that gasoline (or coal etc.) stays above a certain price — $4.00 per gallon of gasoline, for instance — so that consumers, entrepreneurs, utility companies, auto makers et al. will know that they can never expect a return of lower fuel prices, and therefore ought to turn their efforts to conservation, alternative energy sources, and so on. Whether the idea should be pursued, I don’t know." - that depends on what the goal is. if it is to compel real, fundamental change in our consumption habits - at any cost - then yes. if it's to continue pulling the band-aid off slowly, then no.
gas  economics  prices  floor  fossil  fuels 
november 2008 by sogrady
It's Green, But Will People Want It? - Harvard Business Online's Leading Green
and an interesting piece on green packaging, and the conundrum of consumer vs supplier motivations
green  packaging  economics  harvard 
september 2008 by sogrady
Twitter: The hottest Web startup - Aug. 6, 2008
poor Twitter. when it's not being slagged for its poor uptime, it's being knocked for its lack of a business plan. which is fair, given recent history. but how many would have used it - or even realized that they might - if it's gates weren't wide open from Day One? i wouldn't have. Twitter stands a much better chance of realizing revenue, IMO, now that it's addicted so many users than it did before. it's like crack that way.
writing  web2.0  web  twitter  technology  startups  fortune  economics  businessmodel 
august 2008 by sogrady
New $tadium widens lead in $tandings
good lord. revenues from the new Yankee Stadium are going to _double_? shit
newyork  yankee  stadium  redsox  boston  baseball  economics  bronx 
august 2008 by sogrady
App Store bringing in strong revenue for some iPhone devs
"Block has been earning almost $2,000 per day on the application, quite a bit more than she was expecting to make." - while i doubt this is the norm, and it'll get tougher as the library gets more crowded, 2K per day is 2K per day.
itunes  apple  mobility  developers  economics  monetization  iphone 
august 2008 by sogrady
Welcome to the Frozen Economy
medicine is not always painless, and as much as this (my, really) is poised to be hurt by it, ultimately it needs to happen. we can't prop up unsustainable behaviors. its impact is terrible to behold, however.
analysis  articles  behavior  blog  businessweek  depression  earth  economics  economy  money  recession  via:brenda 
july 2008 by sogrady
John Sequeira's Weblog
"The zero-carbon-footprint approach to deliveries, making local produce workable, taking cars/trucks off the streets -- it's all incredibly timely with gasoline breaking the $4/gal limit."
johnsequeira  carbon  footprint  economics  shipping  trucking  delivery 
june 2008 by sogrady
You Think Flying Is Bad Now...
if it meant less business travel, i would gladly champion higher airfares
flying  airfares  economics  oil  fuel  airlines 
june 2008 by sogrady
Daring Fireball Linked List: May 2008
"So let’s get this straight. The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that isn’t theirs, over a network that isn’t theirs, because, well, just because." - pretty much, yeah
riaa  johngruber  economics  music  industry 
may 2008 by sogrady
Coding Horror: We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here
"The competitive pressure of free products on commercial tools intensifies every year. It's relentless. And to be honest, I feel many of the commercial alternatives aren't evolving fast enough to stay ahead of their free competition."
opensource  economics  business  free  software 
april 2008 by sogrady
ESPN.com - Long-term cost of MLB's prices
"MLB can make a few pennies every year, selling all the old stuff. I suspect it can more dollars, down the road, by giving away the old stuff to anybody who cares enough to want it."
mlb  free  commons  lossleader  economics  businessmodels 
march 2008 by sogrady
eMusic making good money from back catalog
"The audiobooks were watermarked and Random House monitored file-swapping networks for evidence that eMusic customers were swapping the material. They found almost no piracy, something that Pakman attributes to targeting an older audience."
emusic  economics  longtail  mp3  music  drm  audiobooks 
march 2008 by sogrady
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The Times better change
not my industry, but interesting thoughts on what the Times should do. a bit rough on the Globe, however, which is my paper.
advertising  economics  journalism  newspapers  newyorktimes  bostonglobe 
march 2008 by sogrady
The Adoption-Led Market [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
why volume is important. really could have done without the bats, though. i hate bats.
adoption  volume  ubiquity  software  economics 
march 2008 by sogrady
Artists to music labels: Where's our Napster money? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
i'm shocked - shocked i tell you - that artists might have gotten shortchanged in an exchange with the labels
napster  kazaa  music  riaa  labels  artists  economics  drm 
february 2008 by sogrady
Is Google’s Enterprise Software Too Cheap? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
"But enterprise customers want their hands held. And if you cut prices too low, there simply isn’t enough money for Google or a reseller to provide much service. It will be very interesting to see if the market demands that Google actually raise its pri
enterprise  google  pricing  economics  support  service 
february 2008 by sogrady
The Economics of Online Backup - Inside Lightroom
though for larger datasets the economics are worth looking at
amazon  analysis  backups  bandwidth  s3  storage  economics  cloud 
february 2008 by sogrady
Google's Data Asset | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
this is an excellent piece that describes perfectly why i feel that judging popular web properties solely on the basis of revenue generated may lead to undervaluation. the data - in the right hands - can have immense value
advertising  aggregation  algorithms  analysis  data  economics  google 
february 2008 by sogrady
Discovery News : Discovery Channel
"The researchers calculated that in Indonesia, where wetlands are being converted to grow palm oil to produce biofuels, it will take 423 years before biofuel CO2 emission savings would repay the carbon debt caused by the land conversion."
biofuels  green  co2  carbondebt  economics  efficiency 
february 2008 by sogrady
Odds and Ends: Mench, Salcedo, Edmonds, Foulke
"Seeing the way the Yankees and Red Sox have poured money into young talent, it's surprising that rebuilding teams haven't topped them. Why don't the Orioles spend $10MM on the next draft and just not sign Josh Fogg?" - good question
yankees  redsox  orioles  draft  economics  rebuilding 
february 2008 by sogrady
isabel wang's blog: "Let's not sell the physical iron...."
"In the end, the company is saved by 'selling not the physical iron but the real thing that the client wants - where he wants it, when he needs it, in the amount that he needs'." - that's blasphemy
isabelwang  economics  businessmodels 
january 2008 by sogrady
Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music
it's interesting...but i just don't feel tremendously excited by this, personally. then again, subscriptions have never held a lot of interest for me.
last.fm  music  economics  subscription 
january 2008 by sogrady
Joyeur: Bingodisk and Strongspace: What Happened?
whereing the Joyent gang details their response to the outage, the causes, and the compensation - which includes the open sourcing of two assets. looks like i'll have to find a new home for my Strongspace stuff, but it was comp'd so i have no complaints
backup  bingodisk  cloud  customerservice  economics  hosting  internet  joyent  strongspace 
january 2008 by sogrady
Can The Mac Attack Continue? - Forbes.com
i've given up trying to predict the fortunes of AAPL as a business
aapl  economics  markets  shareprice 
january 2008 by sogrady
Book now for the flight to nowhere - Times Online
as Chris said, sometimes a reality check is good for your perspective
india  travel  poverty  economics  culture 
january 2008 by sogrady
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
"In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that." - a sad, but necessary observation of the state of mobile here in the US
iphone  apple  business  economics  at&t  carriers  innovation  businessmodels  via:adam 
january 2008 by sogrady
Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear
"As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations." - an ephiphany, or a budget crisis?
riaa  music  emi  copyright  business  ifpi  economics 
january 2008 by sogrady
Seth's Blog: Music lessons
two words: a. men. why the music business thinks they deserve to continue business as they have previously is absolutely beyond me. as my Mom told us growing up, the "world doesn't owe you a living."
music  business  sethgodin  riaa  digital  economics  disruption  via:matt 
january 2008 by sogrady
Square Pegs: Ha-ha! | pegasusnews.com | Dallas / Fort Worth
"ha ha, your medium is dying!" - this is one for Senor Churbuck
print  media  economics  thesimpsons 
january 2008 by sogrady
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Batteries
"If there is a technology realm that could have a larger impact on today's society and yet has been less funded and had slower growth, I haven't seen it." - amen
joegregorio  batteries  innovation  energy  economics 
january 2008 by sogrady
“Calibrated Journalism” at Churbuck.com
"The tyranny of metrics has firmly spilled into the newsroom. This is bad. This pushes enterprise reporting into the realm of chasing traffic.
journalism  reporting  metrics  economics  ethics 
january 2008 by sogrady
blog.pmarca.com: What's that sound Wile E. Coyote makes as he's plummeting towards the ground?
"OK, now look at those numbers and tell me with a straight face that the DVD business isn't going to go through the exact same thing in a couple of years, and that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray aren't already the walking dead." - no can do
entertainment  music  dvd  blu-ray  hd-dvd  economics  sales  revenue 
january 2008 by sogrady
Taking The Plunge
"Yesterday was a big day for me. It was the first day fully devoted to my new job, which is basically this website. It still hasn't fully sunk in - I quit a perfectly good, pretty cool salaried position to run my baseball blog full-time." - awesome
blog  baseball  job  economics 
january 2008 by sogrady
Paul Buchheit: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?
"So the question is, should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook (or close the accounts of anyone who uses Facebook's "friend finder") for violating their Terms of Use?"
paulbuchheit  control  economics  privacy  plaxo  facebook 
january 2008 by sogrady
A Brilliant Craigslist Thread: Buy Or Lease? | The Cosmic Tap
scathing responses to an NYC golddigger. hilarious, and just a little sad.
nyc  money  golddigger  economics  humor 
december 2007 by sogrady
joe shaw / i, on the other hand, ate like a whole bag of trail mix for dinner
"Junk food costs only $1.76 per 1000 kcal, whereas healthy food costs $18.16." - and we wonder why obesity is a problem
obesity  junkfood  economics  subsidies  sugar  corn 
december 2007 by sogrady
Open Sources | Rodrigues & Urlocker | InfoWorld | ESTD: Converting Your OSS User Base | December 4, 2007 12:51 PM | By Savio Rodrigues
"I can't reconcile that OSS is game changing, yet is only estimated to represent < 2% of customer spending in 2011." - point taken. but at the same time, how much of that budget traditionally has been shelfware? and what of the pricing deltas?
opensource  economics  enterprise  marketshare 
december 2007 by sogrady
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online
“The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent
warrenbuffett  economics  government  tax  via:jim 
october 2007 by sogrady
Luis Villa’s Blog / two things to know before deciding what to pay for the new Radiohead album
similar models have been tried before in the past, most notably by Stephen King with his "Plant" serialized novel, and failed. i'll be interested to see how Radiohead fares. i suspect, however, that sans the oversight of peers most will go cheap.
radiohead  economics  model  music  luisvilla 
october 2007 by sogrady
Daring Fireball: The Ringtones Racket
"The reason these relationships are rocky is that the executives running these companies are stubborn fools who are only willing to consider ways to keep things the way they were, and who hold their own customers in utter contempt."
apple  ringtones  economics  business  copyright  gruber 
september 2007 by sogrady
an epitaph for epitaph at 17 dots
"At a time when the music industry is in such steep decline, our research and experience shows us that consumers are still willing to buy music, provided the value is right. And 99 cents a song is not an acceptable price point..." - or, so long Epitaph
drm  music  pricing  economics  emusic  epitaph 
september 2007 by sogrady
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