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• Business, Commentary

  Market Disruption vs. Market Destruction

  03.26.13 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Amazon 2012 Financials (source EDGAR)Click to Enlarge One of the most fascinating things I’ve witnessed over the course of my career is the increased frequency and ease with which markets are changing. Technology is a catalyst in that and now we are seeing the change in markets accelerate from centuries to decades to single digit [...]

• Business, Innovation

  To Be Remote, or To Not Be Remote

  02.26.13 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Disclosure: I am a Yahoo shareholder. Last week Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer declared remote workers obsolete at the portal company. You can read all about the decision if you simply do a search on “Yahoo remote workers” and read until your heart is content. About 15 years ago in Silicon Valley, it became possible to [...]

• Business

  The Art of Being Cheap in Business

  02.17.13 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Recently I had a conversation with an intern we have working with us at Coastside Ventures about a business she is considering. An interesting sub-topic of the conversation revolved around keeping costs low, which is a pretty good business practice all around. However, as we were having the dialogue, it became clear that we were [...]

• Business

  The REAL Fiscal Cliff

  01.29.13 | Permalink | Comments Off

  While the politicians in Washington were busy playing brinksmanship with the national economy, the “real” world went through the same cycle seen each January. For those lucky enough to make more money than the Social Security threshold (about $110,000 in 2012) started paying into the system again taking their net pay down. In addition this [...]

• Business, Coastal Stuff, Oddyssea

  Our First Holiday Season as a Retailer

  12.26.12 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This month has made the classic book opening of a Tale of Two Cities ring true “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Since Half Moon Bay is really a Halloween town, we thought that perhaps we’d seen the peak of the season in October, particularly with an overall sluggish [...]

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