With America’s economy in crisis, Silicon Valley has emerged as a new authority on how to create jobs. Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins has analyzed the U.S. government as if it were a high-tech business, arguing convincingly for a reduction in spending, while mostly restricting her comments on revenue increases to the less-helpful claim that […]
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What was unnerving about the career of English poet John Milton was his unshakable conviction beginning in adolescence that he would write Christianity’s great poem, and the actual age at which, deep in blindness, he would dictate the elaborate epic to his daughters: 58. Paradise Lost encompassed the early modern world’s total understanding of theology
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Everybody knows the story: in the first Internet boom, new companies rode high on staggering losses only to face bankruptcy once the music stopped. At the height of the madness, a single Internet startup lost $720 million in one year, but was somehow valued at $25 billion. Now as companies invent arcane financial metrics to
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We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight and station its monstrous fulfillment space-ships over every major American city? Benefits: Deliver everything same-day including groceries the way it does here in Seattle Go after UPS, using its analytical
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We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight and station its monstrous fulfillment space-ships over every major American city? Benefits: Deliver everything same-day including groceries the way it does here in Seattle Go after UPS, using its analytical
Memo to Amazon: Pay the Sales Tax & Put Everyone Else in E-Commerce Six Feet Under Read More »
Here, from a Google Street View photo take just a few years ago, is a portrait of the American dream: And here, after eight re-financings, a shiny SUV and a boat, followed by a bank failure then a Fannie Mae foreclosure, is the home for sale now: The topiary and rose bushes are dead. The
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