This is the donald at his finest. Seriously. You MUST watch it. Whether you agree or not, super-entertaining. And, on balance, I agree with my boy, Mr. Trump.
Watch DT on CNBC.
Agree:
- Oil companies are just having a field day and making a freaking killing. There was a reason why we had public utilities at one […]

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Good article on fortune.com by Adam Lashinsky on where Google goes from here. Definitely worth a read.
It’s a fascinating question. Google was a company started by smart guys with a good idea. They stumbled into a helluva advertising model that printed money based on intent (goto.com actually did the work of invented that). They then […]

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So I’ve been delinquent with blogging!
Life in SF is good, and so that could be why. When you’re running around doing a thousand things, and you’ve broken your regular routine of blogging, it’s easy for that to deteriorate into zero updates.
I’ve spent most of my free time working on the book. I’ve got a what […]

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1. public transportation is fun. i take the company provided shuttle to work, occasionally get rides from co-workers and roommates, and then ride the bus/train. what i’ve always loved about public transit was how calming it is. just the fact that you don’t control when the train comes, you walking faster doesn’t help, driving faster, […]

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Delta sucks. And they certainly seem to go out of their way to do so.
I’ve flown on Delta almost exclusively over the last 5 years. I’ve wracked up about 200,000 miles cris-crossing the country (with a side-trip to Europe). I’ve put up with some rude employees, no food and often pillows/blankets, uncomfortable seats, and endless […]

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Everyone wants to capture someone else’s interest. Marketers. Managers. Singles. Parents. Children. Pets. Everyone. I’ve always thought that getting people intensely interested was actually pretty simple. Capture their imagination. That’s it.
I took advantage of living in a major city yesterday. I saw a movie before it opened in wide-release. The Assassination of Jesse James […]

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Have you ever thought of your life in acts? I have. And I’m about to start act iv in my life and it’s exciting.
Act I was growing up. I’ll end this at freshman year in high school. Without going into a ton of detail (maybe that’s another post) let’s say that like most driven people, […]

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The stock markets for the past 3 weeks has been just fascinating. And by fascinating, I mean quite crazy and on most days, quite painful.
I studied Finance at Rutgers, and we learned a lot about how “efficient” the markets were. How all available and whispered about information is efficiently synthesized by the vast army of […]

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I shudder to even write the words, but I have to wonder if another stock market tech bubble is forming. The last time we were here, at the end of the last/beginning of the current decade, everyone’s cash flowed into tech and telecom because it seemed like a sure thing. Exuberance all around. Today, the […]

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This post is from: Surya on Marketing (suryaonmarketing.com)
I’m making a prediction. By the end of 2007, there will be a slew of mainstream media stories on Facebook vs MySpace. I further believe that they will have the tone that the previous MySpace vs Friendster stories had: breathless accounts of how Friendster (and this time, MySpace) […]

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I’m going to cross-post this on suryasays.com and suryaonmarketing.com (SoM) What’s that? SoM is going to be a site where I post my random thoughts on marketing and sometimes business in general. I’m going to focus on two areas of marketing: general marketing fundamentals and technology marketing.
To read why I’m doing this site, you’ll […]

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I graduated a tad bit too early for social networking. Facebook wasn’t a twinkle in Zuck’s eye when I was in college, and not even Friendster was really running around. But being a tech-hanger-on I joined Friendster probably in 03/04. Then MySpace. And then, once I found my rutgers alumni email password, Facebook.
What’s been most […]

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The New York Times had this article over the weekend all about how online retailing is so over. Yesterday. Dead. Done. Well, maybe they didn’t proclaim it over, but they certainly were calling dibs on the rotting remains. Anyway, as soon as I saw this I was struck by what this meant. Well, let me […]

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Once upon a time Business 2.0 was my favorite magazine. I loved reading about the hottest companies and ideas. There were great one-page articles on what’s hot and cool -right now-. It was filled with news about young people doing amazing things. It brimmed full of interesting ideas and tips. And that was awesome perspective […]

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Got back from San Francisco last night. I had a ton of fun– great weather (if but a tad bit chilly), great food, and great people.
Special thanks to Corey, Jared, and Noah for showing me around a little and treating me to wonderful meals! The hospitality of the Bay residents might be the finest I’ve […]

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I had this grand theory a few years back that our society was descending into cannibalism. While I guess that could be a literal descent into eating our fellow man and woman, but I mean it in a metaphoric way.
I’m sure there are better examples, but for our purposes let’s use the companies Costco and […]

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There are so many cool web businesses out there today, sometimes it’s just silly. Today, I’m talking about personal finance site, Seeking Alpha. It allows individual contributors with informed (or semi-informed) opinions of stocks, the markets, etc to post their positions on the site. They have editors who screen and pick out top-quality content. The […]

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I think Coke Zero has some great ads on TV right now. The idea of Coke suing itself because the taste is close is simple and brilliant. The old guy talking about the capital of Dijibouti being Dijibouti also cracks me. Great job on this campaign. It’s a very simple ad-idea that I think is […]

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(Updated with new information from AMD 4/9/07)
This post started as I thought about my pathetic AMD stock. I’ve come to learn that everyone in the world right now seems to hate AMD and the stock. Or at least this is true if you believe the stock market reflects public sentiment on the future of a […]

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Google today announced that they’ll be offering a suite of applications for office workers for only $50 per user a year. These applications, basically an alternative to Microsoft Office, today cost about $150 a user not counting the IT help and hardware to run them. This is a massive, but widely expected move from Google. […]

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i’d like to preface this post with the statement that the only two cars i’ve ever owned have been GM: a ‘93 pontiac grand am (se), and my current ride, a sweet ‘98 saturn (sl2). additionally, the vast majority of the cars my family has owned through the years have been GM or from […]

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I love amazon.com. I likely have a problem. Hi, my name is Surya, and I have a problem. I order too much from Amazon.com. I have books, and other random stuff (now that they sell -everything-) lining the walls of my humble condo.
Yet, Amazon frustrates me to no end. It’s simple really. You order something […]

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(I had a cold and so curled up on the couch like a little baby and thus the hiatus for those who are curious. Now on to the post:)
I played the Wii at a friends house on Saturday. And it is freaking awesome. And it’s shocking that we haven’t seen anything like this sooner. Especially […]

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I don’t know anything about how to market a Hollywood movie. But I can generally tell when something is being royally neglected. And the movie, The Namesake, has gotten my attention recently (for its absence, not presence). Full disclosure, The Namesake is one of my favorite books ever. So maybe I care more about this […]

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Guaranteed to blow a thinking person’s mind with its simplicity:
Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink) has another amazing article in The New Yorker. I proclaim it article of the (10 day old) year. He attempts (and surprisingly, largely succeeds) to defend Enron’s ex-CEO Jeff Skilling by asserting that Skilling should not have […]

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