Michael Broukhim

eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce - Chris Dixon

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:22:30 -0800

eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce - Chris Dixon:

smart, accurate

Envisioning a Post-Campus America - The Atlantic

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:04:41 -0800

Envisioning a Post-Campus America - The Atlantic:

thoughtful piece… h/t @treyko

"If he were named Fred Smith and played for Sacramento, Linsanity (or, I guess,..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:38:33 -0800

“If he were named Fred Smith and played for Sacramento, Linsanity (or, I guess, “Smithsanity”) would still be the league’s hottest story right now. Players don’t come out of nowhere and dominate NBA games like this. Lin was cut twice before the season and, as our Marc Stein reported, days away from being waived a third time. A week ago he had 114 points in his NBA career; in five games since he’s racked up 134. He scored more points in his first four starts than any other player since the ABA-NBA merger.”

- Why didn’t we all see this coming? - ESPN

Sexy collaboration between @keenancahill and the boys @me_undies...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:14:00 -0800

Sexy collaboration between @keenancahill and the boys @me_undies - Keenan’s Crush #fb

"Victor Fung, the chairman of Li & Fung, one of Hong Kong’s oldest textile manufacturers,..."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:39:43 -0800

“Victor Fung, the chairman of Li & Fung, one of Hong Kong’s oldest textile manufacturers, remarked to me last year that for many years his company operated on the rule: “You sourced in Asia, and you sold in America and Europe.” Now, said Fung, the rule is: “ ‘Source everywhere, manufacture everywhere, sell everywhere.’ The whole notion of an ‘export’ is really disappearing.””

- Made in the World - NYTimes.com

"These Valley types think this whole process could be automated and they don’t have to pay 7..."

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:06:31 -0800

“These Valley types think this whole process could be automated and they don’t have to pay 7 percent to these flashy, French-cufflink-wearing Wall Street types”

- Eric Jackson via In Facebook IPO, bankers seek prestige over fees

Don’t give them any ideas…

Apple vs. Oil in Corporate Profits. Unbelievable. (h/t MG...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:10:09 -0800

Apple vs. Oil in Corporate Profits. Unbelievable.

(h/t MG Siegler)

Udacity and the future of online universities

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:32:49 -0800

Udacity and the future of online universities

"We shouldn’t be criticized for using Chinese workers,” a current Apple executive said. “The U.S. has..."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:59:04 -0800

““We shouldn’t be criticized for using Chinese workers,” a current Apple executive said. “The U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need.””

- Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com

"For Hollywood to be killed, the Internet needs to focus on a metric other than eyeballs. It’s not..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:21:15 -0800

“For Hollywood to be killed, the Internet needs to focus on a metric other than eyeballs. It’s not about mass, it’s about good. That’s absolutely anti-YouTube and anti-Farmville and any other content which we expect to be rapid, mass and disposable. Disposable content isn’t bad, it’s just not everything. And as long as that’s all that the Valley is putting out, we won’t kill Hollywood.”

- Killing Hollywood Will Require Learning Hollywood’s Game | PandoDaily

The Future: In Safe Hands | via PandoDaily

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:45:07 -0800

The Future: In Safe Hands | via PandoDaily

"Buffett is famous for noting that newspapers would never have existed if cable, satellite and the..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:50:53 -0800

“Buffett is famous for noting that newspapers would never have existed if cable, satellite and the Internet had come first. The same might be said for retail. If the medieval merchants of Venice had been able to shop on Amazon, you would never have needed any of those winding shopping streets along the canals or in the piazza.”

- Why Amazon Is Like The Death Star - Seeking Alpha

Is this true? This question is occupying my mind. What happens to physical retail in Amazon’s world.

david: Great show by Google! Though I wish they’d drop the...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:25:19 -0800

david:

Great show by Google! Though I wish they’d drop the “Please”.

"Publishers like to pretend that we make our money from discovering unknown talents for small..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:51 -0800

“Publishers like to pretend that we make our money from discovering unknown talents for small advances and selling millions of their books. That’s a very small part of our business. The bestselling books are all written by celebs, by people with huge platforms, by fiction writers with a long history of bestselling books, or by people who do a proposal that’s on its surface brilliant. In short, there’s a bidding war among the publishers over the big books. We all know what the good books are–it all comes down to how much of an advance we’re willing to pay for them. The hotly fought-for books are the ones that sell. And while we might not make huge profit % on these, we make big profit $ on these. They keep the lights on by covering overhead. Better to cover our fixed costs by going all in on a few big books than trying to buy dozens of mid-list books.”

- Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily

Middlemen…….

#kobesystem #fb

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:44:11 -0800

#kobesystem #fb

Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:04:55 -0800

Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain:

Thank you elementary school teachers if you’re feelin good right now ;)

Diet or regular? Someone at Coca-Cola should be fired. (Taken...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:32:27 -0800

Diet or regular? Someone at Coca-Cola should be fired. (Taken with instagram)

Bad idea (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:46:52 -0800

Bad idea (Taken with instagram)

NBA Forever. Amazing intro to NBA season by TNT. Good to have...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:44:56 -0800

NBA Forever. Amazing intro to NBA season by TNT. Good to have basketball back.

(via 25 People Who Thought Lil Kim Died)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:20:08 -0800

(via 25 People Who Thought Lil Kim Died)