Curious Rat: Google Drive vs Dropbox Terms
Don’t be evil……
"Sharing is predictable, and follows specific patterns over time. There are two main types of links: evergreen ones, which have a long sharing curve, and breaking news, which have an average life span of 2.8 hours on Twitter and 3.1 hours on Facebook."
Bitly to Launch New Consumer Version (via thenextweb)
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Google Consumer Surveys
Decent value, great idea from Google. The only thing that isn’t clear is what Google can do with the data. Their global terms of service imply that they can use the data to improve the services, but it’s potentially another gold mine of data for Google analysis. Just keep in mind that like any kind of quantitative analysis, coming up with the correct questions is the hard part….
Narcissistic leadership
One of the common traits of successful people is the desire to always improve. I always try improve key business, technical and management skills. So here I am reading about business and leadership theory and I come across this term I’m not familiar with.
What a fascinating read.
RIP Sierra. 4/21/2012
The Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five Years
Royal Pingdom susses out some interesting trends about the world’s 2.27 billion Internet users:
- Africa has gone from 34 million to 140 million, a 317% increase.
- Asia has gone from 418 million to over 1 billion, a 143% increase.
- Europe has gone from 322 million to 501 million, a 56% increase.
- The Middle East has gone from 20 to 77 million, a 294% increase.
- North America has gone from 233 to 273 million, a 17% increase.
- Latin America (South & Central America) has gone from 110 to 236 million, a 114% increase.
- Oceania (including Australia) has gone from 19 to 24 million, a 27% increase.
They also note that Asia’s Internet population is almost double the entire Internet population was in 2007.
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I’m curious how accurate the data is. What firms classify? Do you have to have funds of a certain size? Is this just U.S. venture capital firms? Just Northern California VC firms?
Despite the mythology that has built up around venture capital, it has become a slowly moldering investment vehicle. “The past 10 years haven’t been very productive,” Maris points out. According to the research firm Cambridge Associates, during the decade ending last September, VCs as a class earned a 2.6% interest rate for their investors—less than you could have earned in an S&P 500 index fund. The numbers look slightly better over shorter periods; VCs have delivered a 4.9% return the past three years and 6.7% over the past five, still far from terrific.
Google’s insurgent attitude—perceiving startup funding as broken and appointing itself as the fixer—has ruffled some in the insular, clubby world of venture capital. Not on the record, of course. Google Ventures is already big enough that it has participated in deals with almost every prominent Valley investor, and nobody wants to talk ill of a partner. Behind the scenes, though, some question the firm’s experience—most of its partners are former Googlers who haven’t worked in venture capital before—and its passion. If you were looking for money and were choosing between Google Ventures and such top firms as Andreessen Horowitz or Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, people would tell you to go with one of the other guys.
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SpaceX Costs - Elon Musk
I pay attention for professional reasons due to an amazing client we have. But it’s refreshing to read a CEO that doesn’t just say a lot while saying nothing.
