The ads that appear at the top of my emails in my Gmail account have become extremely targeted lately. I can’t seem to stop clicking on the ads that show up. Google has figured out my interests in start-ups and travel. I get mostly content links from Business week, NY travel and others that are [...]
Check out this page from the Bessemer Venture Partner site. An interesting (and witty!) profile of missed opportunities. http://bvp.com/port/anti.asp Full Disclosure: Bessemer is an investor in the company I work for.
Are corporate-types finally waking up to the need for enviromental responsibility? Here is an extract from a Wall Street Journal article (behind a pay wall) NONDALTON, Alaska — Soaring in his private plane above the pristine tundra here two years ago, Robert B. Gillam experienced a conversion: The money manager and pro-business Republican became an [...]
The Heavenly ski resort at Lake Tahoe is planning to cut-down hundreds of trees to make way for a chair lift. Here is an extract from an article in the Wall Street Journal (behind a pay wall). …ski resorts, which cut down forests to create ski slopes and build condos, still haven’t completely won over [...]
I was in Bangalore recently and could not help but notice the apartments that are popping up everywhere. Real estate prices are at an all-time high. So are the stock market valuations for apartment builders. The IPO of ‘Soba builders’, a local builder, was oversubscribed 108 times. Finding 5-star hotel rooms is also difficult. There [...]
A recent SEMPO Survey says that Yahoo is on a solid footing on the SEM front. To substantiate this claim, it cites the survey statistic that 4 out of 5 or 86% of the respondents run SEM ads on Yahoo. I think this is misleading. Historically speaking, Overture (which was acquired by Yahoo) was the [...]
