Where are the great European Internet companies – the Euro Google, EBay or Facebook? They are out to lunch. … the big difference between the new media culture in Europe and America is that American entrepreneurs don’t know how to take time and have lunch. Europeans, want to know people and don’t judge all work [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Why Europe is no land of brilliant start-ups…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why not use drugs for brainpower?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that ‘enhancement’ is a dirty word,… We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function… and doing it with pills is no more morally objectionable than eating right or [...]
For Innovators, There Is Brainpower in Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NYT, by Janet Rae-Dupree None of us is as smart as all of us. (Japanese proverb) Innovation does not take place in isolation… invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators themselves don’t always realize it. Keith Sawyer, a researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, calls this “group genius”… [...]
Google generation: Never Memorize Again?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rote Learning a Waste of Time? Memorising facts and figures is a waste of time for most schoolchildren… the existence of Google, Wikipedia and online libraries means that there is no useful place in school for old-fashioned rote learning, according to Don Tapscott, author of the bestselling book Wikinomics… a far better approach would be [...]
The golden rules of “just asking” (part II)…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The Technology of Questions™” The power of influence! Questions exert a greater level of influence than anything else. Ask someone a question and it forces them to focus on that issue! Whenever possible, don’t tell, but ask! Ask the right person! Who is the best person to ask? Always choose the person who is most [...]
Fairly Valued Stock Market…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After All That, Stock Market Finally At Fair Value / Why fairly valued stock markets are an opportunity. The good news, however, is that, after 15 years of being overvalued, the S&P 500 is finally priced to deliver an average long-term return: about 9%-10% in nominal terms and 6% after adjusting for inflation. That’s nothing [...]
