Furqan Nazeeri

Furqan Nazeeri

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14 years ago @ Paul Kedrosky: Infecti... - The Honda Accord, Then... · 2 replies · +1 points

Isn't that what happens to everyone when you hit your 30s...weight goes up and fuel economy goes down...

14 years ago @ Redeye VC - Help me rename "L... · 0 replies · +1 points

I call them "equity efficient" businesses. You hear a lot about "capital efficient" but that alone is not true. I know of several businesses that aren't necessarily efficient with capital, but are able to obtain that through means other than raising equity (e.g. customer pre-payment). An equity efficient business might be big or small but one thing it does not need is what VCs sell (equity capital).

That's my $0.02.

14 years ago @ Paul Kedrosky: Infecti... - The Fog of War, Rememb... · 3 replies · +1 points

I thought the same thing this morning when I read McNamara died. Fog of War was a great documentary and the line I remember most is this one where McNamara quotes Le May saying, "Had we lost the war, we [Le May and McNamara] would be prosecuted as war criminals." The bigger point he was making was "proportionality" and the fact that you should always consider the consequences even in the moment. RIP McNamara.

14 years ago @ VC Confidential - Reducing Stress in the... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your math is impeccable and triangulates with the earlier "debate" Fred Wilson instigated. It's hard to argue that "money in" can substantially out pace "money out" for any period of time. But when you step back, what I wonder is why the capacity for VC is so small (just $10 billion) in a $14 trillion economy? Every year something like $1 trillion is invested in "innovation" in the US and it appears that the "capacity" for VC is just 1% of that. Why would that be?

14 years ago @ Paul Kedrosky: Infecti... - Most Expensive Real Es... · 1 reply · +1 points

I'm not surprised.

These are all countries that have opened up in one way or another over the past decade and have created a handful of really wealthy people amongst a sea of poor people. The middle class in all of these countries is small or non-existent so there is an "us" and "them" attitude amongst the rich and poor. Basically if you're rich, there's a limited amount of real estate and there are a handful of people willing to pay for it.

14 years ago @ Mendelson's Musings - Vendor Client Relation... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is great. I used this in a post but couldn't find a trackback. Thx for sharing.

14 years ago @ Tom Keller - More on the death of c... · 1 reply · +1 points

Funny, over the weekend I canceled our super-premium cable package we've had for years which was near $100 per month but we just never watched. It turns out the only thing we watched was CNN and the occasional PPV movie. Hulu, Youtube, MLB and the web has replaced cable for me. Now if only CNN would stream their broadcast live then I'd bail completely on cable.

14 years ago @ http://www.jeffnolan.c... - In Support of Detroit · 1 reply · +1 points

The US automakers blew it in the 70s and 80s. Chrysler got bailed out and Ford and GM were propped up with subsidies, but all that did was perpetuate bad habits. I actually think the government got it right this time to put Chrysler and GM through bankruptcy as that should teach a lesson to investors. It's time to stop allocating capital based on "sunk costs" and old habits and instead to fund the current best ideas for today and the future.

14 years ago @ http://www.jeffnolan.c... - Climate Change Reconsi... · 5 replies · +1 points

I totally agree with you that the discussion about an issue like climate change ought to be fact-based. But this piece (sponsored by the Heartland Institute) hardly qualifies.

14 years ago @ OnlyOnce - Five Years On · 0 replies · +1 points

As a reader of your blog for the past 5 years I'm thrilled.

In the traditional media world there are newspapers, magazines and books. I think of these as addressing short-, medium- and long-term topics. My personal consumption is about 50%/25%/25% although 100% of the "newspaper" category is fulfilled online as is about half of the "magazine" bucket. I don't have a Kindle so my "book" bucket is still 100% dead tree.

Anyway, all a long way of saying that "Twitter" is the short-term information category online and blogs are more like the "magazine" bucket. There are places for both and the authors of all are not necessary interested in / good at all.