Business

This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Previously in Part 1, we discussed the Profit Tree for the newspaper print industry, which is shown below: From the very little data we have, we know that Sunday circulation has dropped by [...]

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This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. There’s a rumor that Jack Welch and his private equity partners might acquire The Boston Globe. When I heard this, I immediately thought of the following: if Welch bought it, how would he [...]

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I’m interested in the Deal Flow community of where ever I’ve lived.  I’ve followed Deal Flow in Chicago, where we lived for a few years while I was in graduate school and in Southern California, where we just moved from 10 months ago. I recently obtained access to a pretty accurate Deal Flow database for [...]

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Even though I submitted our phone number and mailing address to the FTC’s “Do Not Contact” list, I still get a lot of junk mail. As I sift through the mail, it dawned on me that the people behind the mailings aren’t trying to bother me — no intentionally anyway, but that they are trying [...]

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Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson’s new book The Long Tail is hot. It is a provocative and innovative book that attempts to show an economics that the web has created, where the sales of “non-hits” can cumulatively be larger than the sales of hot selling items. While his ideas are germane to many areas of [...]

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Continuing the series on the 33 Strategies of War, I’ll be summarizing the 2nd Strategy: The Guerilla-War-Of-The-Mind Strategy. Greene begins by stating that often the biggest contributor to failure in strategy is our past — our previous successes and failures.  He recommends venturing forth into new ground: Sometimes you must force yourself to strike out [...]

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Last week a few buddies and I watched The Ultimate Fighting Championships 61. It was pretty good. A few featured fights were Tito Ortiz vs Ken Shamrock and others. One of the fights was between Andre Arlovski vs Tim Sylvia. During the Arlovski vs Sylvia fight, the announcer made a comment that Arlovski’s chin has [...]

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