How about structuring bonuses more like an earn out. When companies are acquired an earn out is typically included so that the owner of the acquired company has an incentive to run the company in the most profitable way. If bankers bonuses were based on earn outs that are paid over 3-4-5 years then they will reconsider risk since compensation is deferred.
The only way possible to download the whole FB social graph is to get permission to do so from every FB user. People can scrape public info but the social graph allows access to a users friends, friends of friends, likes, comments, checkins an so forth.
I'm intrigued but how is this using my information to present me with an infographic? A sample would be great but I didn't see one (could be me). I'm reluctant to sign up with the limited info.
It analyzes all of your tweets to find the content that your audience most engaged with by retweeting or replying, show the geographic location of those followers, and shows your most retweeted posts. In addition, it shows a bar chart of your tweet frequency with an awesome easter egg (click on the bird).
The Twitter auth only requires read access to your tweets, so you don't have to worry about it automatically tweeting for you. Give it a try.
Groupon cut their IPO by more than half to $10-11b from $25-30b. If you think its bad that they laid off 75% of their employees wait until Groupon has to lay off a good portion of their 10k +- sales force. Through being in the business, understanding Groupons financials and the market I have a hard time believing they are worth more than a few billion. The market requires a large on the ground sales force (expensive) and huge marketing expenditures to keep and gain new customers who are not loyal. Groupon may be better off pivoting into some sort of social network as they do have >100mm subs. What about Living Social? Their recent valuation was in the billions but not hearing much about them.
A Groupon IPO is one of the worst things that could happen to the industry, at any price.
It's reminiscent of the .com crash and it gives me serious doubts about the rationality of the current tech market.
Let's sell stuff at a discount so large that the merchants lose money but we make money is not a sustainable business model, it's a predatory strategy. How on earth could you offer stock in a venture like that to the public with a clean conscience?
Sooner or later you run out of merchants, it only works for goods that have such a huge profit margin that you can actually afford that. And I rarely see Groupon deals that suggest that they're still profitable for the merchants. Why merchants do Groupon deals is a mystery to me, maybe someone that has done a Groupon deal as a merchant can shed some light on the economic returns for them.
Maybe they're out-of-band in recurring visitors or something like that but I simply don't get it. Or maybe there is something crucial about how Groupon operates that I'm missing, in that case enlighten me please.
With regards to #2 on your list "Yelp for Business Services" there is a company called Contact Karma http://www.contactkarma.com/ which aims to do something along the lines of what you're looking for. My company will also eventually be in the space and allow you to search and discover recommendations through friends and friends of friends in your social networks. For the most part we're restaurants, entertainment, and services for now while we perfect the data but you can see if you're connected in anyway by checking out http://www.cliqsearch.com
Yes, Padmapper does this general kind of thing but it doesn't offer the ability to limit a search based on commute times (which is the title of the post.)
I was corrected in another post and neglected to update this one. I just couldn't see the options for some reason (perhaps because they were super secret :)).
I agree with the fact that most people who make these comments have a bias. While these bias must be disclosed they are often not done so until the end of the video or article that they've written. It should be required that a person disclose any potential biases at the beginning of their argument so that the audience has a clear understanding of what motivates them.
