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Venture Capital Creating Systemic Risk???

April 10, 2010 by Fred Wilson with 711 views

Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed was quoted in the WSJ yesterday saying that VC firms managing $30mm of capital or more need to report to the SEC because "the government needs the reporting requirement so it can assess whether these private pools pose a systemic risk to the financial system." The only systemic risk the VC business is... [read more]

Does anyone else just wish Murdoch would pull the trigger already?

November 13, 2009 by Tac Anderson with 224 views

Image via Wikipedia We bloggers could argue all day about Rupert’s strategy for News Corp (and we will continue to, it’s kind of fun), but personally I think he’s either very smart or completely delusional. I can’t fully make up my mind so I’ll just say that they aren’t mutually exclusive. Personally, I want to see him do it. I... [read more]

Nothing To Say

October 7, 2009 by Jonathan Salem Ba... with 284 views

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch took out a double-page spread in the Wall Street Journal last week to deliver what it must have felt was a very important message to its current and would-be customers.
Nothing.The spread was mostly black ink. A conductor's hands appear in the lower-right corner, a header reads "Expertise and resources,... [read more]

Ink On Their Hands

October 2, 2009 by Jonathan Salem Ba... with 101 views

Peter Kann, the guy who ran the Wall Street Journal before Rupert Murdoch bought it, wrote an op-ed for the paper last weekend entitled "Quality Reporting Doesn't Come Cheap." It reads like an obituary about a suicide.I know it's easy to be somewhat snarky about the plight of newspapers. It's an archaic medium that has been rendered... [read more]

Moonshot, Columbus, now Woodstock Also a Myth? Say It Ain’t So.

August 17, 2009 by Tim Berry with 151 views

We baby boomers have lost too many cultural icons. Don’t take away Woodstock. Some nut shot John Lennon. Good journalism — or was it reality? — took away our faith in institutions. We’ve pretty much lost Ford, Chevrolet, General Motors, Wall Street, faith in television news, trust in doctors, air, water … hell, they even took away... [read more]

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