It’s recession. And this article by Henry Blodget sent me over the top. It begins: Morgan Stanley economist (and perennial bear) Stephen Roach says the current US recession… Like anyone that has ever successfully prevented themselves from completely glassing over during macroeconomics I can tell you that a recession is defined as a decline in […]
Continue reading →A few weeks ago I wrote an article pointing to Guy’s post on Redfin’s financial performance vs. the financial model that they had built. Guy has a follow up article with the actual Excel file that Glenn Kelman has been using to run Redfin. Not sure that using someone else’s model as a template to […]
Continue reading →The expected announcement of layoffs happened at EarthLink yesterday. My estimate on the cuts turned out to be a little conservative. I have relationships with the lots of folks over there and they constitute a good share of readers of FoG. With that in mind, here are ten tips about life after EarthLink. 1. There […]
Continue reading →Blake Purdue and Guy Tessler made a few comments on my Seeing Leadership post that deserve further discussion. The New Media Exchange was one of the more energetic pitch events that I have recently been to with a good pace, plenty of breaks, and hordes of interested potential strategic investors. AOL, Cox, Microsoft, and Turner […]
Continue reading →Not to long ago there was a little chatter about what Atlanta needs to do to become a world-class technology city. My $.02 on the subject was that we needed to see corporate leadership from the tech titans. And I am seeing a little leadership, in to many, an unlikely area. Tomorrow and Thursday Turner, […]
Continue reading →As in Indiana University Kelley School of Business. I went there for graduate school. Graduated even. Back then the Kelley guy had not ponied up to put his name on the school. Right now they are looking for someone to put their name on the undergrad building. I am pulling for Mark Cuban to do […]
Continue reading →Business 2.0 (which oddly does not have its own web site, now 1.0 is that?) thinks Atlanta is hot. ATL was ranked tenth in a study on job growth. The forecasted job growth is being driven by small companies with less then 12 workers. Startup like companies. Specifically mentioned was Technology Enterprise Park, which like […]
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