Friday Signal: Can You Hear Me Now?
Friday. I always see the day in yellow – as a sunny day full of promise. Or news that deserves a line or two of sunny analysis, anyway. But alas, for whatever reason, I didn’t find that much to highlight today. Sure, I read through my usual 450 headlines. But I honestly don’t care what Apple might announce regarding the iPhone 4′s reception issues. So that obviated half the posts right there. To the (rather random) links:
Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) (Steve Blank) An interesting primer. As someone running a company that’s made “the transition,” it makes me proud to have chosen investors who don’t manage the board to an exit above all else.
The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation (SEL) Funny rewrite of yesterday’s controversial NYT editorial on Google. See also Google’s blog post.
Google Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Google Investor Relations) Well, the quarter was largely in line and delivered amazing growth (24% y/y), but spending on new staff meant a miss on the bottom line, and that meant the stock suffered. I was wrong – Google’s display business has not yet delivered earnings in a meaningful way. But I think it will.
Android Market now has 100,000 apps, passes 1 billion download mark (Engadget) My guess is Android will surpass iPhone on all metrics by the end of the year. One can argue quality, etc., but the math is the math. Google = Windows and Apple = Apple, as I’ve said before.
China now has 420 million Internet users, 277 million access by mobile phones (TNW) That’s, um, a lot of people.
How Will You Measure Your Life? (HBR) Powerful stuff. “It’s quite startling that a significant fraction of the 900 students that HBS draws each year from the world’s best have given little thought to the purpose of their lives.”
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Today’s FM campaign of the day is the Kohler Facebook Photo Contest (image at top is from the contest). Check it out!
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