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Do Angel Investors Make Technology Shallow?
Just two days ago I wrote about super angels potentially crowding out VCs in the funding of technology companies, and I noted that this dynamic was mostly relevant to consumer internet companies rather...
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Northern Budgets vs. Southern Corruption
Slate recently ran an article by Anne Applebaum claiming that the division that now matters in Europe is no longer east vs. west, but instead north vs. south. According to Applebaum, communist east vs....
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Benefits of the European Economic Model
Salon recently interviewed Thomas Geoghegan, author of Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life, a book which, in addition to having a ridiculously long...
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How Wall Street Captured Main Street
If you have the time, read James Kwak‘s interview in The Straddler. He has some interesting things to say about how our culture is oddly enamored of the idea of the swashbuckling wall streeter, and yet...
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On Airlines, Hospitals, Blizzards and Flu Outbreaks
Here is a really interesting article comparing the airline industry to the public health system, with full service hospitals being the legacy carriers, serving everyone and subsidizing low fare...
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VA System: Best Healthcare, Lowest Cost
Check out this article, from 2007, on how the Veterans Health Administration has gone from scary run-down hospitals to the provider of the best care in the country, at the lowest cost. The VA secret: a...
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Can Congress Change Its Culture?
Cultural change is the recent theme here at Thoughtbasket; I discussed how a company might change its culture, and then how America might change some aspects of its culture. Today I want to look at a...
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Four Keys to a Happy Work Environment
I’ve been thinking about work, and what makes working at a company enjoyable. What any person might like or dislike about work can vary widely, of course, but I’ve worked at a lot of different...
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Spending Too Much on Brand Names; BMW, Coach, etc.
Interesting that it’s a car webzine (thetruthaboutcars.com) that has written the best commentary I’ve seen on the trend of the past few years in which young people have been spending well beyond their...
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Kids Say Hey: The Casualization of America
Here is something interesting I’ve noticed over the last year or so. The generations younger than mine – let’s say everyone under the age of 25 or so – use the word “hey” the same way my generation...
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