“The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That’s the only way to think about the venture capital business that makes sense to me.” – Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
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20% time is a scam to help their [Google] engineers really focus on their remaining 80% time. Really good engineers like to have fun. They get distracted from the job they are supposed to be doing. They like to innovate — they don’t like to do the boring work that is required to make the product commercial grade.
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“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability — they should go hand in hand.”
—Donald Norman, 2003
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On David Cowan’s blog:
http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/09/parents-gone-wild.html
Too bad our 6-year-olds weren’t there. I’m sure that any one of them would have been smart enough to immediately ask “Hey, where are the plates?”
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For the past few months I have been collecting Bid information from Overture/Yahoo! Search Marketing’s View Bid tool for 200+ keywords.
Data collected includes: Top 10 bids on Y!/Overture, trended over time with information on which company bid on the term, ranking of that bid, and creative/copy.
The above graph trends average bids on Yahoo for Home Loan related keywords, which probably is the most highly contested (and expensive) category in the SEM world – with bids as high as $25.
Notice that in recent months Home Loans related bids have been trending down. My resulting deductions/hypothesis –
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