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The Credit Crisis – the US economy horror picture show View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: economics credit)

Paulson’s take on where we are: “We’ve taken steps to bring confidence back to the banks, but we will have a number of difficult months ahead of us.”

The VC internet investments have officially slowed down! This chart shows that they are down 16% in Q3. As stated in hundreds of blog posts, the slow down in the economy will undoubted affect the startup world, but just how much is still unknown. There are many things that startups can focus on in order [...]

My guess is that there are more people out there with questions about what the hell is going on in the markets than there are people with answers. True? Do you have more questions or answers? Thought so. TickerHound.com sets out to meet that need head on. In standard forum fashion TickerHound allows people to [...]

At BarCamp Milwaukee last weekend I hosted a session on Startups in the Financial Crisis. It was very well attended and turned out to be an incredibly valuable discussion for a lot of people. (Thanks for all the great feedback!) I wanted to revisit some of the content of that discussion to emphasize what a [...]

Startups And The Financial Crisis View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: barcampmke crisis) Over the last week I’ve been working on slides a pitch for a discussion I’m going to host at BarCampMilwaukee. The discussion is going to be focused on how VC and startups will react and be affected by the recent [...]

Link from picture not working : Warren Buffett interview This video of Warren Buffet being interviewed by Charlie Rose is an absolute must watch if you are interested in the financial crisis and it’s affect on the United States. Please watch this and consider what Buffett says about, well, almost everything. I’ve ready many (leather [...]

In 2001 the pop of the bubble in Silicon Valley brought Wall St. tumbling down. Will This pop on Wall St return the favor to Silicon Valley? The super investment savvy in NYC and beyond probably have a pretty good take on what the hell is going on with the financial crisis. What’s most interesting [...]

In an article from PE Week, that many VC’s have discussed recently, the argument was made that the bubble of 01 prepared VC firms to be ready for this type of financial crisis. VC firms don’t seem to be largely affected by the recent financial crisis and many are confused why. A few of the [...]

No need to post why I think everyone should watch these interviews…

I started thinking about how the Financial Crisis has got everyone freaking out, often times for good reason. Many have lost significant portions of their net wealth and other have lost college savings funds, etc. But, I have been raised to find the positive in all things, so I did that. In my mind there [...]

A summary of the governments bailout or takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Fred Wilson: This means the US taxpayers are now the guarantors of many of the mortgages that have been issued in recent years. Nobody really knows how much liability that the government/us taxpayers have taken on, but it’s certainly a [...]

“A solid working knowledge of productivity software and other IT tools has become a basic foundation for success in virtually any career… Beyond that, however, I don’t think you can overemphasise the importance of having a good background in maths and science… Communication skills and the ability to work well with different types of people [...]

  Today the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) released that they would be creating an “internet index” that will follow many of the large internet companies (i.e. Google, Yahoo) and other publicly traded internet companies.  As Duncan Riley on TechCrunch speculated, it is likely that any good or bad news around Google would [...]

The US Dollar has decreased by roughly 12% in the last year.  This directly affects the US’s ability to hire quality individuals from other countries (outsource). As industries like technology, health-care and sciences begin to rely more on the less expensive but very well educated individuals from other countries it is very important for the [...]