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I just finished reading the fascinating REBEL WITH A CAUSE by John Sperling. In case you never heard about John Sperling, he founded University of Phoenix and grew it into a multi-billion dollars, publically traded company. A few interesting things I learned about John Sperling and his founding of University of Phoenix from the book: [...]

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Oracle announced this morning that it is buying Sun Microsystems in a deal valued approximately $7.4 billion. I’d like to offer a few quick thoughts: This is a brilliant strategic move by Larry Ellison, a master of acquiring enterprise technology companies. Oracle’s bread-and-butter is database. Its single biggest threat is the open source MySql database. [...]

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Costco: I was at Costco over the weekend – what recession? It was crowed! Someone I knew who worked at Costco told me that their store was doing more business. I’m not surprised at all. Given its low price and high quality, I think Costco will do better than most retailers. Instead of going to [...]

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Jobs said in a media advisory. "Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well," Jobs said in a statement. "In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I [...]

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I love glassdoor.com. I have recommended it to a lot of my friends. It has become my favorite career site beside Linkedin.com. Glassdoor fills a market need that neither Salary.com nor Payscale.com provides. It offers salary and work environment reviews at company level. For example, you’re offered a product manager job at Microsoft. You want [...]

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Seth Godin had a very insightful post "The sad lie of mediocrity". Call it Synchronicity — right after I read the post, I encountered mediocrity in action at local Barns & Nobles book store. Every September, I buy a copy of INC 500, Special 2008 Issue. I love the entrepreneurial success stories of the fastest-growing [...]

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I have been waiting for such an article — Ho Nam, a venture capitalist from Altos Ventures, had a great post about his different perspective on Sequoia’s "R.I.P Good Time" meeting/presentation. In case you haven’t seen the "R.I.P" slides, GigaOM has a detailed post. Since the "R.I.P Good Time" slides were leaked to the press, [...]

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I don’t have the crystal ball to predict the future. I’m not an economist by any stretch of imagination. But, I’d like to offer my observations on this from my own experience. After all, I worked with outsourced operations at almost every single job I had. Observations Outsourcing to China is mostly in the manufacturing [...]

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Silicon Alley Insider reported that Amazon (AMZN) makes a push into the world of casual gaming with the acquisition of Reflexive Entertainment. The article mentioned that "Not clear what Amazon’s thinking is here." I think I have some ideas about the rationale behind this acquisition. In the retail world, business is managed by categories (e.g. [...]

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Back in May, VentureBeat reported that "Online ad network JellyCloud has called down part of its $11.5 million Series A1 round of funding. The company has a patented technology to pull consumer data from a lot of sources across the web and create anonymous user profiles with help advertisers target an audience.” What is unique [...]

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