- Seven Deadly Sins (A VC) – Fred expands on a few of the seven deadly sins for entrepreneurs that venture capitalist David Beisel posted about, speaking of which…
- Seven Founding Sins (Genuine VC) – David Beisel looks at seven deadly sins commited by many company founders. They include inauthenticity, sloth, extravagance, taciturnity, greed, arrogance and indecisiveness.
- Skype-eBay and Today’s Lesson (The Post Money Value) – To see the potential in the eBay purchase of Skype you have to think big.
- Where’s the Dog Bowl? (The Post Money Value) – Rick Segal thinks that Microsoft isn’t "eating its own dog food" when it comes to the use of Outlook with the IMAP protocol. The real interest to me is that it was the first thing I’ve read that helped me understand what IMAP means/does.
- Positive Image and Context (The Post Money Value) – Rick has an interesting take on the memo written by the now-resigned head of FEMA, Michael Brown. He points out that in the context of the entire memo the infamous sentence “Convey a positive image of disaster operations to government officials, community organizations and the general public” isn’t really bad. His feeling is that if Brown had used plain language like “You’ll need to keep the red tape crap in check, show people their
gov’t actually cares and paying taxes has somewhat of a point.” then this wouldn’t have blown up into a PR disaster. He makes an interesting point. - NYT’s Brooks Revealed that "from Day One," the Bush White House "decided our public relations is not going to be honest" — Why Hasn’t He Written About This? (Media Matters) – During an interview on the Chris Matthews show David Brooks said that from day one the Bush administration wasn’t going to admit mistakes, even if it meant being dishonest. Duh?
- Jackson Compares FEMA Contracts to ‘White-Collar Looting’ (San Jose Mercury News) – From the article, "The Rev. Jesse Jackson suggested Sunday that
the federal government was encouraging ‘white-collar looting’ by
awarding no-bid contracts to favored companies to rebuild
hurricane-ravaged areas, rather than giving those displaced by the
disaster priority for jobs." The Rev. is beating the same old drum, and it’s going hurt the people he should be trying to help. The jobs need to go to those who can do it best, period.
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