Howard Schultz From Sixty Minutes

Sixty Minutes did a segment on Howard Schultz of Starbucks yesterday and it is damn good. Have a look. What I would have asked him a bit more about is how did he manage to convince the investors to buy that 6-store chain at a time when there was no market for coffee in America

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Piczo & The Sound of the Crash

If you’ve read The Timer, you know the Online Club concept. Piczo is a new club, which I looked at last Fall with Trinity, and which Sierra ended up investing in. It is a site for teenage girls, and I hear that it is already at breakeven. Sierra owns a large chunk of the company

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The Timer

Venture Investment in tech is changing fundamentally. Perspective.

2006 Tech IPO Prospects & Market Outlook

2006 IPO Prospects.

Invention vs Commercialization

The whole business of patents … what’s just? what’s fair?

Netflix vs Blockbuster

Netflix sues Blockbuster for process patent infringement.

TVi vs Microsoft: What Can YOU Learn?

TVi versus Microsoft, the Autoplay patent has been settled. It may be a good idea for entrepreneurs to start understanding how to defend IP against big players.

Food, The New Phenomenon

Reader’s Digest’s acquisition of AllRecipes – some supporting figures.