Paul Roales's Comments

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Fifteen Reasons News is Bad For You

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:42:59 +0000

I thought the way Warren Buffett worked was just basically sit around his office all day reading various news sources?

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : The Future of Work

Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:10:11 +0000

Good to see you writing a post again. Been a lot of two lines and a block quote for a while, missed the Kedrosky Kommentary..

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Temporal Issues in Information Consumption

Tue, 7 Dec 2010 03:15:28 +0000

How many hours per day do you spend reading news/twitter/etc?

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Bloomberg Announcement: Keep Calm and Carry On

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:21:23 +0000

More Kedrosky more ways? Awesome...

Feld Thoughts : Gmail Has Won Me Over

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:53:09 +0000

>The biggest one is that I have multiple accounts on Google (brad.feld@gmail.com as well as brad@feld.com) and they aren’t tightly integrated across all services. Google has known about this problem and has been working on it for a long time (they talked about it last year at SXSW at the Gmail pannel). Now the solution for this is rolling out to Google Apps users right now. So check your feld.com Google Apps dashboard and you might be able to enable it right now. It is called the "New infrastructure for Google Apps accounts" more details here: http://www.google.com/support/a/?hl=en

Feld Thoughts : Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:15:32 +0000

"patents have almost no impact on VC investment" Correction: "patents have almost no impact on {IT/WEB] VC investment" ...you act like your sector of VC investment is the only sector that exists.

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : The Tyranny of the Illiquidity Providers

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:32:06 +0000

Should we have fewer markets? Instead of having 30-50+ markets/dark pools instead we have 3, and they are regulated similar to a natural monopoly. Are we seeing flight to the most liberal markets similar to companies registering in the most liberal domiciles?

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Digital Kills the Automobile Star? Really

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:16:36 +0000

I think it has a lot more to do with graduated drivers licences in many states now. In 1978 it was much more common to be able to get a full drivers licence at 16, now many states have restricted drivers licences (day time only, no passengers, etc) which may reduce the utility of getting a drivers licence young (Mom may not be able to have her 16 year old drive all the kids to school for her).

Feld Thoughts : Email Is Still The Best Login

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:08:56 +0000

At the gMail pannel at SXSW the team said they were actively working to let you use Google Apps email addresses in place of @gmail.com addresses across all Google systems. I am not sure if that would help you or not (or if your still on the archaic Outlook you complain so much about).

Feld Thoughts : Annual Escalating Patent Fee Proposal

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:15:56 +0000

... assuming of course the 3+ year lag to get a patent approved is fixed.

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Is Venture Investing Like Pascal's Wager?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:36:20 +0000

I would maybe restate #3 from "There is no cyclicality to venture" to "the cyclicality of venture is highly correlated with public markets" There could be cycles in VC that do not indicated the health of the US economy if they are not correlated at all.

Feld Thoughts : This Stuff Should Just Work

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:56:02 +0000

Is this a test to see if the Cult of Feld alone is strong enough to make a portfolio company investment a success? I don't doubt it may well work...

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : The Superwealthy Don't Last All Summer Long

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:54:34 +0000

The special "Rockefeller tax rate" kind of makes the AIG bonus taxes look broadly applied...

Feld Thoughts : Defrag is Around the Corner

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:35:26 +0000

Who scheduled a conference on Election Day?

Startup Weekend : Brilliant Post on Boulder

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:07:46 +0000

I would be less worried about the ranking of the business college then the ranking of the engineering school.

Startup Weekend : Brilliant Post on Boulder

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:50:44 +0000

Now if Boulder had a serious college by any measure.. it would be unstoppable.

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Gone Fishing

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:26:02 +0000

What happens when Warren Buffett dies? Does the financial world lose some measure of security?

Andrew Hyde : Living Without

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:13:00 +0000

Good post. It would be interesting to see a user generated site listing Celiac friendly restaurants. Something like a mix between rareshare.com and yelp.com

Feld Thoughts : The Priorities of a Venture Capitalist

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:57:00 +0000

"All of the CEO's I work with are excellent on email." It seems like CEO's who are excellent on email, get more funding. Would you ever fund a CEO who took days to reply to emails? Have you?

Paul Kedrosky: Infectious Greed : Sex and the Single CEO

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:29 +0000

Scott Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO of ExactTarget maybe in this category. The company is incredibly well respected in the Midwest, has happy employees, and are out there consistently getting it done business wise. Filed for a IPO, but haven't been able to get it done. Everyone is happy, just waiting for the payoff to come someday.