April 2011
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March 2011
16 posts
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The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
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The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
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“Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s...”
– All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate - NYTimes.com
This is a fun and pithy line, but the piece it’s from (by the NY Times’ editor, Bill Keller) has much more depth to it than an airy dismissal of the AOL/HuffPo deal. Well worth five minutes of your time.
via @siguy
“There’s a pretty straigjtforward reason why FB is valued at an astonishing...”
– How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity - steve’s blog
Yupp.
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IA Ventures is looking for a few good interns
IA Ventures (http://iaventures.com) is seeking one MBA/experienced intern and one undergrad intern to join us for 12 weeks this summer as full-time, paid interns in our New York City office.
We are a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on companies developing tools and technologies for managing and extracting value from Big Data, and we’re looking for two start-up junkies to join our...
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Social Proof and Information Cascades
In the venture world, there’s a lot of talk about social proof. As someone who’s spent a good chunk of his life studying cognition, I know that social proof is one of mankind’s most powerful tools in decision-making. At the same time, we at IA Ventures believe that blindly following social proof is a poor investment strategy (if you can consider it a strategy at all). But how can...
“We observe that when a daughter was born to a male CEO, wages paid to the...”
– Do companies pay women more if a male CEO has a daughter? - Barking up the wrong tree
via Andrew Sullivan