Archive for 2007

Adwords on Gmail

Uncategorized on March 29th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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Green Efforts

Uncategorized on March 27th, 2007 No Comments

http://sustainlane.com/

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VC Anti-Portfolio

Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 No Comments

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.

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The Dissent from Within

Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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Say No to Skiing at Heavenly

Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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Bangalore Real Estate

Uncategorized on February 26th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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SEMPO Survey

Uncategorized on February 22nd, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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