Some interesting links from around the web…
Forbes presents a special report on CEO compensation.
Chief Executive is praising Donald Trump for walking out on an Ali G interview. I'm not a big Trump fan, but it shows the guy is smarter than most people, who never realize they are being played.
Matt Winn writes about the founder's stake at exit for VC funded startups. It's low enough to make you think hard about taking VC money.
Businessweek explains the increase in hostile takeover attempts.
Mars is opening a megastore in Times Square, right across from arch-rival Hershey. My guess is that both stores benefit.
Techcrunch writes that Facebook isn't for sale, and is worth $8,000,000,000. Yeah right. When the Yahoo analysis for their $1 billion offer was leaked. I was shocked. Do they honestly think they have a shot in hell at projecting revenues in 2010 and 2015 for a social networking site? If I was a gambling pundit, which I'm not, I would put my money on the idea that Facebook isn't around by 2015, and that social networking as we know it today is pretty much gone. I may even take that same bet at 2010.
Chief Executive could have titled the Trump story “You can’t con a con.”
Thank-you for your criticism of valuations of social-networking sites, especially Facebook. The comm/technology flatteners are all around us and will continue to evolve. I just hate to see good capital lost to businesses dressed in Macy’s Day parade floats.
As someone who uses some of the social networking sites to promote my site using a profile that is informative but upfront about what I am doing, I have to say that the results are barely worth the effort.
Seems to me that there’s a lot of noise and very little signal on these networks.
Whilst they may have huge numbers of of visitors, they just seem to wander about somewhat aimlessly. Just what do they do ?