Regarding our simplified version of Moore's Law (see prior post), in the mid-90's I built a spreadsheet to see what had actually happened. At that point we had about 15 years of technology investing behind us which I charted out. The result was that there was about a 1.8x price performance improvement every year. This [...]
I'm a big fan of Andy Kessler. His articles are always worth reading, providing insight to parts of the financial world I don't play in, and giving his unique spin to it all. His most recent emailing included an excerpt from his new book, Running Money. In this section, he recalls meeting an entrepreneur who [...]
First, an icebreaker. What's the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you? It was the mid-80's, and PDI was working hard to break into the television commercial business. We had clients from out of town that had come to spend the day reviewing our progress, giving feedback and hopefully approving the work so far. [...]