peHUB First Read
Some links to kick off your Friday:
* Is Dubai’s debt cloud about to burst?
* Chris Sacca is leaving Google, where he had been in charge of special initiatives (including that wireless spectrum buy). Next up? Angel investing.
* Speaking of Google, the search giant wants to create its own version of Wikipedia.
* Still speaking of Google, two consumer groups throw a Hail Mary to prevent the proposed acquisition of DoubleClick.
* Citigroup reverses course, and will rescue seven structured investment vehicles (SIVs)
* Mike Greeley of IDG Ventures enters the East Coast/West Coast “great company” debate.
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Tom said on December 14, 2007
> * Mike Greeley of IDG Ventures enters the East Coast/West Coast great
> company debate.
He offers very little data. Most of the article is a subjective piece
on why the West coast creates more billion dollar companies than the
East coast.
-What is the count of billion dollar (I’m assuming he means past twelve
months revenue rather than inflated market cap, especially of non-public
entities) companies created West vrs. East coast?
-What is the concentration of VCs within 50 or so miles of Silicon
Valley (let’s say San Jose as the epicenter) vrs. Boston?
-What is the population of university students to draw on with those
50 miles (Stanford/Berkeley etc. vrs. Harvard/MIT etc.)
-Can these numbers be crunched per capita?
Is it simply the law of larger numbers? Maybe none of the data backs
up a conclusion and maybe its an attitude thing?
One thing for sure, he starts with a conclusion which seems to me to
become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tom said on December 14, 2007
Forgot: Not dumping on you Dan, I posted these same questions on his blog…