I know it's all the rage to ooh and aah at the market's implosion right now, but a momentary diversion isn't so bad. The folks over at the excellent Science of Sports have put together this video retrospective of some of the highlights ... Go to Full Article

This was supposed to be an Inc 500 discussion on Friday with John McCain and Barack Obama's economic advisors, but Obama's guy was a no-show (which is more than a little strange). Anyway, worth watching, as my friend and colleague Carl ... Go to Full Article

Okay, I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with John McCain: SEC Chair Chris Cox should be fired. Who would have thought he would stoop so low as to use the front page of the SEC site to blame seniors for the current credit crisis? ... Go to Full Article

I see that the Financial Times has signed U2 singer Bono on to do some blogging, and to get things started he answer a question on Wall Street's current troubles: AB: And finally – how much money have you personally lost so far in the ... Go to Full Article

There is a small silver lining in all the carnage out there: lots of MBAs are going to have to rethink their career choices. Finance and investment banking have been top of the pops for some time, and that grew remarkably in recent ... Go to Full Article

Okay, I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with John McCain: SEC Chair Chris Cox should be fired. Who would have thought he would stoop so low as to use the front page of the SEC site to blame seniors for the current credit crisis? ... Go to Full Article

I agree with Daya on two points, Google Spreadsheets is a disaster and Zoho is a remarkable company that has defied the odds to become the leader in online productivity apps. With 1 million users, before this 400k GE agreement, ... Go to Full Article

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have abandoned their investment banking status in return for a cover under the Fed to survive the current US financial storm. Under the radical revamp, two banks will be transformed into bank holding ... Go to Full Article

We encourage our portfolio companies to make sure they take time out from the operational demands of their business to think about the bigger strategic picture. We do the same for USV and a couple of weeks ago took a day off to discuss ... Go to Full Article

We've invested in a number of blogging related applications and services; Adaptive Blue, Delicious, Disqus, FeedBurner, Outside.in, Twitter, and Tumblr. We've been attracted to this sector for a number of reason; because an increasing ... Go to Full Article

doing some reindexing, comments should be back up at 9:15am Pacific time. Go to Full Article

My friend Nouriel Roubini in the weekend FT talking about then next stage in the current crisis:. The next stage will be a run on thousands of highly leveraged hedge funds. After a brief lock-up period, investors in such funds can ... Go to Full Article

As a New England Patriots fan, yesterday was a bad day. We have lost a regular season game for the first time since Dec. 10th, 2006 (Dolphins then, Dolphins now). As the game ended, I thought about all my beloved teams (Hapoel Haifa, ... Go to Full Article

Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has agreed to acquire upto 20% stake in Morgan Stanley. The firm said in a release that it is "ready to pick up 10-20% stake of the total outstanding common stock of Morgan Stanley ... Go to Full Article

Anil Ambani's hollywood dream is coming true. His Reliance Big Entertainment has agreed to provide equity funding of $500 million to Steven Spielberg's hollywood production company DreamWorks. In a related transaction, the latter has ... Go to Full Article