http://www.developmentcorporate.com Musings of a Reformed Private Equity Operator Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:43:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2009/02/11/a-dying-boy-his-tractor-parade-calvin-hobbes-predict-the-bailout-in-1994-facebooks-payout-to-connectu/ http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2009/02/11/a-dying-boy-his-tractor-parade-calvin-hobbes-predict-the-bailout-in-1994-facebooks-payout-to-connectu/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:31:24 +0000 John Mecke http://www.developmentcorporate.com/?p=453  

• Cool Story About a Dying Boy and His Tractor Parade
• Calvin & Hobbes Predict Today’s Bailout in 1994 
• Surviving the Drama of the Twitter Awards – WSJ.com -
• Law Firm Blunder Reveals Value Of Facebook Payout To ConnectU: $65 Million -

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• People Paying Good Money To Cheat Pointless Twitter Competition – TechCrunch
• Cerberus Capital Planning Staff Cuts Approaching 10% – WSJ.com -
• How to Profit From the Credit Crunch – WSJ.com -
• peHUB » Mid Market “Responsibility” vs. Large Market “Irresponsibility” -
• Seeing Both Sides: Why Do “Asshole VCs” Survive? -
• In 2009, Layoffs Is the Business to Be In — NY Times
• Presidential Limo: Presidential Gatling Gun-Equipped Suburban Badder Than New Cadillac Limo -

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• CEO Firings On the Rise As Downturn Gains Steam – WSJ.com -
• Tech Spending to Decline in ‘09 – Digits – WSJ.com -
• What Executives Can Learn From Obama’s BlackBerry Saga – John Baldoni -
• Wave of Bankruptcy Filings Expected From Retailers in Wake of Holidays – WSJ.com -
• Pfizer Plans to Lay Off Up to 800 Researchers – WSJ.com -
• The Satyam Truth: Outsourcers Don’t Work For You – Susan Cramm -
• Idea for a new magazine – to be named later « Searching for the Moon -
• The End of the Private Equity Party | Investing | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com -
• 11 Habits of the Worst Boss I Ever Had – David Silverman -

]]> http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2009/01/14/ceo-firings-on-rise-tech-spending-decline-obamas-blackberry/feed/ 1 http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2008/12/29/the-daily-mecke-for-december-26th-from-2003-to-2003/ http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2008/12/29/the-daily-mecke-for-december-26th-from-2003-to-2003/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:45:19 +0000 John Mecke http://developmentcorporate.com/?p=252 Some random links from the past few days

• World of Warcraft Players Need Not Apply – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com -
• Glassdoor.com Lists Naughtiest and Nicest C.E.O.’s of 2008 – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com -
• Digital Domain – What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting – NYTimes.com -
• Dave Barry Year in Review: Bailing out of 2008 – Dave Barry – MiamiHerald.com -
• Predicting the Next Financial Meltdown – BusinessWeek -
• Goldman’s Star Dims in Rankings for M&A – WSJ.com -
• How O’Hare Airport Got It’s Name — A Pretty Inspiring Story -
• Retailers Brace for Major Change – WSJ.com -
• How much time are your employees wasting on social media at work — an online calculator

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• ABC News: Kindly Elf Hands out $13,000 to LA’s Homeless -
• Salvation Army kettles overflow – BostonHerald.com -
• Sophia’s gift of snow: Ill child gets a white Christmas – CNN.com -
• wcco.com – In Time For Holidays, Amazing Gift To Fire Victims -
• Shuttered bakery reopens, rehires workers
• Bank to 500 homeowners: January payment is on us

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• Free eBook- Using the Social Web to Find Work | chrisbrogan.com
• Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately
• Santa fixes red light cameras -

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• FT.com / Companies / Technology – Christmas shut-down in Silicon Valley -
• Business Technology : Why Most Online Communities Fail -
• Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds – ReadWriteWeb -
• Master List ‎(A Wiki of Social Media Marketing Examples‎) -
• What teens can do in the spare time -
• http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/?p=76 -

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• Influential Marketing Blog: A Compilation of 2009 Social Media Predictions Worth Reading -
• Australian couple served with legal documents via Facebook – Telegraph -
• Bloomberg.com: Worldwide -Third of hedge funds headed for wipe out
• Fantasy Flight at Dulles Delivers Holiday Magic – washingtonpost.com -
• Teenager finishes Great Britain coast walk -

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