Hints and tips:
...In the movie Wall Street, the corporate raider Gordon Gekko says: “Come on, tell me something I don’t know. It’s my birthday, pal, surprise me.”...
...As Mary Meeker, the much-watched Silicon Valley venture capitalist, wrote in a report two weeks ago, it took about two years for Instagram to snag 100m monthly active users and roughly 18 months for the...
...“If you don’t sign up for ‘first click free’, you virtually disappear from a search....
...Morgan Stanley alumni from that time include the noted venture capitalist Mary Meeker. The only bank to really muscle in to the duopoly is JPMorgan....
...Mary Meeker is not one to shy away from being wrong....
...Certainly, trees don’t grow to the sky....
...“People don’t spend enough time looking at how intense the competition is,” she says in an interview with the Financial Times. “The bet here is — we can’t stop progress. Are we better off or worse off?...
...Oh, and don’t forget the nuclear weapons, the monopoly on the legitimate use of force in the area where many tech companies are based, and the globally recognised legal system that sets standards for techies...
...“I think what Labour has done is to believe this is too difficult for them politically, let’s just wait for it to go away, and the meeker we are, the quicker it will go away,” said Mr Farron....
...“Consumers want a seamless experience . . . they don’t want aggressive advertising that is intrusive,” he says....
...Apparently the full board, which includes venture capitalist Mary Meeker, was not involved in the decision....
...“They don’t give agencies or the brands access to their algorithms and the data being mined are for Google and Facebook — and not for the brand.”...
...Copenhagen population 1.2m Denmark population 5.6m Tech start-ups 430 Copenhagen university population: 94,000 Mary Meeker, a partner at Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins, said in 2012 that the rising...
...And I don’t just mean introducing cushy chairs, beer kegs, and on-site dry-cleaning services to retain employees....
...“I don’t think they’re going to complain about any of this.”...
...The volunteers tended to be older – and meeker – than their Yes counterparts. Passers-by tended to shun the fliers, although many gave brief words of support or at least a nod and a smile....
...“Why don’t they just use normal phones?” she asked. That was long ago, and it feels like a galaxy far, far away....
...Mary Meeker’s presentation on internet trends has an unexpected section at the end about high-skilled immigration, which itself includes a link to a much longer version that we recommend....
...I don’t know if it was a quest for the bragging rights it felt went with a $100bn-plus valuation, but there was little or no consideration for the consequences....
...“In the past, many companies assumed there was no way you could get a return on your money,” says David Meeker, Genzyme’s chief executive....
...“I don’t want to play golf every day,” he said....
...Mr Gross cited an estimate by Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist, that government unfunded liabilities stand at $75,000bn....
...Related links: Drugs; Supply running low – FT Sanofi and Genzyme get closer but don’t touch – FT Sanofi buys Genzyme for more than $20bn - WSJ...
...Don’t be surprised if this shapes who succeeds Mr Trichet next year....
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