About Me 0055: 2011

Monday, December 26, 2011

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Last night a source of mine sent me a text message about spotting Jerry Yang and David Filo (in a suit) at Palo Alto’s Four Seasons Hotel in company of some serious looking men, who spend a lot of time (and money) appearing to be self-important, a skill they perhaps learn in business school. His pithy message to sum it all up — looks like it is all going down.

The “it” is Yahoo’s very public auction of itself to the highest private equity bidder. In case you were hiding under a rock, here is a recap of rumors around Yahoo’s possible sale:

Silver Lake Partners wants to buy a minority stake in Yahoo for about $16.60 a share (valuing Yahoo at $20.6 billion or about 6 percent higher than yesterday’s closing price.) Silver Lake is working with Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz.

The transaction is going to use PIPEs, private investment in public equity — a type of transaction long reserved for somewhat dubious companies.

Jerry Yang will stay on the board, but the investors will get three seats on the board, reports say.

Some folks believe that Jeff Jordan, former CEO of OpenTable, will become the chief executive of Yahoo and VC Marc Andreessen will become the chairman.

TPG Capital is considering offering a $1 per share more — aka $17.60/share.

Others are also eyeing the company including KKR and Blackstone Group.

Thomas H. Lee Partners is thinking about a bid.

Alibaba Group wants to buy Yahoo. Yahoo owns 40 percent of the Chinese company. Kara Swisher says they are thinking about teaming up with Softbank and Blackstone for their own bid.

600 million

Last time I wrote about Yahoo and its dismal and disastrous board of directors, I pointed out that 600 million users make up Yahoo’s biggest asset (and biggest stumbling block) and that company needed to clean house and then go shopping. Most of the people in comments disagreed and said that no self-respecting startup would want to be part of Yahoo.

Instead, most felt that the company should clean house and focus on a few pockets of growth inside the company — communications and shopping for example. I am betting buyers will be thinking along those lines, but will that be enough?

Whatever comes of these moves, the question is, can Yahoo be saved, and if yes, what is the value that can be retrieved? More importantly, will these private equity investors meet their own tech Waterloo in the fallen Internet star?

Dead Fish

As far as I am concerned, Yahoo is pretty far gone and is essentially a hollow shell of its former self. Its board – probably the single worst group in business – has managed to drip every last drop out of its body. There are few bright spots — Flickr, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Shopping — but they cannot make up for the singular reality that the Internet that helped Yahoo thrive is no longer the Internet most people use.

Behavioral shifts in the Internet are so strong that Yahoo has no chance. The average U.S. Facebook user is spending over six hours a month day on the social network, Twitter is becoming the new news network and photos are thriving on mobile platforms.

The Internet of today is one of many screens. Yahoo, despite its mobile products and wonderful experiments with Yahoo TV, is still a one trick pony — online advertising. More accurately, the classic CPM-style advertising depends on large audiences, lots of page views and well, you get it, an old-fashioned way of thinking. When I think of Yahoo, I am reminded of a salmon farmed on carcinogens that is trying to move upstream in order to find growth.

Smart guys, but…

The consortium that is making a push for Yahoo is the same group that went out and bought Skype from eBay and turned around and flipped it to Microsoft, and in the process they made a lot of money.

However, this is not the same case. Skype was and still is on the right side of history. Usage behavior favors Skype, which continues to grow despite the company having ruined a great user experience. Skype is thriving despite all the meddling from the previous owners. Microsoft can’t do anything because Skype provides value.

What does Yahoo do that you and I can’t live without?

That’s right … nothing!

I have a lot of respect for Jeff Jordan (who would actually be one of my choices to run Yahoo), but I am sorry even he cannot do the impossible. Yahoo’s brain drain is legendary and it continues. There are more resumes going out of Yahoo than there are folks lining up to work for Yahoo. Unless there is a tech/broad economy collapse, that situation isn’t going to change.

Frankly, if you were a smart engineer or a product guy, why would you go work for a company, which is going to be owned by buyout guys who essentially nickel-and-dime your creativity to death? Why not go and work for a startup, where the chances of an upside, however remote they might be, are still there.

Or better yet, take a flyer and start your own company. Hell, if you need a job, these days even Google is pretty lax about hiring. The fact is that the buyout philosophy might work on old industrial-age companies, but I am not sure it would translate to Internet companies.

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I remember the '90s like they were yesterday. Websites such as Amazon and eBay were well on their way to transforming commerce as we know it, and even flash-in-the-pan startups were making their founders into overnight millionaires. But while the money piled up for other people, I quietly nurtured a vision of my own: Craigslist, a revolutionary online classifieds site that allows people who wish to buy or sell goods and services online to be raped or murdered by total strangers.

Nobody, absolutely nobody, thought my idea for changing the way unsuspecting victims were entrapped into life-threatening encounters with sociopaths had a chance. Nobody except me, that is.

Those initial meetings with venture capitalists were some of the most humiliating experiences of my life. I'll never forget the way they just fidgeted as I explained my plan for a virtual bulletin board where a person looking for a summer sublet could be beaten to death with a crowbar or someone in search of a running partner could, with just a click of the mouse, find another person planning to kill and eat them. Everywhere I turned, there was someone else telling me how crazy I was. Even my parents, who had always been supportive, told me I was absolutely out of my mind.

And at first it seemed they were right. When the site went live in 1995, the traffic was robust, and word of mouth was driving up the visits every week. Sure, people found writing groups and good homes for their pets—but where was the deceit and resulting brutality? Every day I checked the papers for a story about someone who had been lured into a soundproof torture chamber with the promise of a $100 like-new mountain bike. Every day, I was disappointed.

Maybe I needed to tweak the design? Maybe I needed to promote myself better? What was I missing?

I started to panic. I even considered hiring someone to take out an ad and then forcibly sodomize the first person who responded to it, just to prime the pump. I held back, however, because that kind of unethical behavior always comes back to haunt you. And, fortunately, my restraint was rewarded.

Ever so slowly, people started using the site the way I had always intended. Right before my eyes, the depraved and violent were going online and finding Craigslist. Half the ads placed in the Volunteering section were put there by sex offenders, while at least a third of the people who arrived for jobs they found in the Gigs section promptly had their legs broken. Maybe most gratifying was the uptick in mayhem in the Casual Encounters section, which had been surprisingly sluggish. Suddenly, it seemed like every other person showed up for his no-strings blow job with a switchblade. I knew I'd reached a tipping point. Only one thing was missing now—one thing I really needed to push Craigslist over the top.

A corpse.

Finally, almost two years after I launched the site, a man who had strangled his tennis instructor and dumped chunks of her dismembered body in a creek near his home told police that he had met his victim through Craigslist—through my site! Through my little site! I almost cried. It took awhile, but my dream had become a reality. Before long, anyone who wanted to bathe in the guts of an innocent knew all he needed was a fake ad for an Ultimate Frisbee team and my URL.

And look at Craigslist now. Here in 2011, it's hard to imagine slaughtering someone without it. Letters pour in by the sackful from people thanking me for helping them find just the right travel buddy to decapitate or math tutor to give to their imbecile cousin to rape. I'm not the type to gloat, but maybe I'll let myself say this just once:

I told you so.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Tips about discovering the most suitable carpet cleaning business for ones position.

Industrial carpet cleaner is a best factor to use within the offices to wash carpets and rugs. Inside large targeted traffic areas, in which carpets tend to be densely dirty, cleansing will become even more difficult; as a result, the majority of washing contractors obtain a commercial carpet cleaner.

Workplace buildings, making use of their a huge selection of square ft regarding carpeted location, pose special problems regarding cleansing installers. Cleaning businesses must clean carpets and rugs within business office structures inside as little moment as possible in order to avoid disrupting every day procedures. Inside large visitors locations, where carpets are usually densely soiled, cleansing becomes even more complicated. As a result, most installers obtain a business carpet cleaner built to provide superlative, effective washing with regard to business areas for instance office things.

Low conclusion carpet cleaning devices might help you save cash initially, however regular complete breakdowns, wear and tear, and also bad work high quality will cost a lot more in the long term. These kinds of reduced capability machines tend to be designed for use in your own home or in smaller areas. They can not work hour or so after hr with out a split, since industrial carpet cleaning needs. Furthermore, they're not really durable enough to be able to stand up to the corrosive chemical compounds and grime that a commercial carpet cleaner will be subjected to. Consequently, you ought to research the supply to get a supplier that offers business carpet cleaner and pick the best merchandise.

Any commercial carpet cleaner provides greater pressure amounts and also temperatures configurations as compared to residential machines, allowing for more quickly, more efficient cleansing. A few brand names regarding industrial carpet cleaning machines might achieve temperature ranges of up to 210° Farrenheit. They can have strain amounts varying around 500 psi, which is often adjusted based on the washing needs.

Just about the most important needs regarding carpet cleaning equipment will be continuous procedure. Consequently, high end business carpet cleaner is fitted together with large capability solution as well as recovery tanks. A number of these equipment possess solution tanks as huge within capacity as seventeen gallons. Also, to avoid the need to quit the device until the h2o heats, a couple of heating system elements are supplied instead of 1, which decreases heat time and energy to about 5 minutes. Many of these floor covering shampooers have automated refilling and also dumping systems so that the agent will not end up throwing away effective moment filling up and also emptying out there refreshing and also dirty water.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Strategies on appointing a appliance repair provider Appliance Repair Chicago

Tips on hiring an appliance repair service

1. For just about any options regarding selecting a major appliance repair business, obtain suggestions first of various appliance repair companies by people in whose thoughts anyone rely on, such as your own loved ones along with good friends who may have had experiences inside getting appliance repair products and services just before
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2. Contemplate if it is a lot more cost-effective to help simply crap the applying to get a new a single in comparison with to possess that remedied with a specialist. Cost-free quotes could even be distributed by a number of appliance repair chicago
on the internet or over the telephone. Doing this, you will not ought to ebook an authentic support require a pc professional instantly and get charged excessively high costs to get a easy repair that you can perhaps accomplish by yourself. At this point, you can pre-judge no matter whether it is best to repair or maybe substitute the actual bad equipment
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3. Yet another element that will help to take into account whether you must use an expert appliance repair specialist will be the typical life expectancy of the equipment. Perform tiny online research to uncover in case your machine could be too outdated and when solving it is going to you need to be some sort of squander regarding funds along with occasion
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4. In some older types of dishwashers, washing machines, along with refrigerators, many people are apt to have a greater high quality when it comes to their own central pieces when compared with existing low-end versions. Globalization features come to presenting selected little aspects of several kitchen appliances to get manufactured in mass in several sites on this planet; that added on the generation associated with low-cost, somewhat low-quality interior elements. There are a few great and incredibly sturdy old-model home appliances that could be well worth correcting
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5. A simple act connected with unplugging next pushing back again an electronic machine will often apparent the challenge for minor electric failures upon washing machines
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6. Prior to locate a expert appliance repair specialist in to the future over and also accomplish the restore to suit your needs, you might want to verify the major search engines with regard to appliance repair guides that will illustrate the situation and also provide common do-it-yourself fixes. On the internet machine instructions are usually free and could give you complete particularly how you can do small fixes with regard to distinct models of equipment
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7. Should you have the knack for this and choose to complete technical household maintenance tasks on your own, you have to behave like an established and also wear safety cups as well as steel-toed safety shoes. It is additionally good sense to be able to unplug the applying 1st before beginning unscrewing anything at all. Razor-sharp ends are present inside dryers so you should be very careful while focusing on one
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Why you should hire a professional appliance repair service?

Using the services of a professional to accomplish an appliance repair help keep an individual from wasting your time trying out your functions of a household equipment you don't understand. Trying to correct it all on your own may lead to additional deterioration on your machine. There are a lot of affordable appliance repair providers currently being promoted online or on the phonebook. It is possible to often contact the right one who is able to fix whichever not working appliance possibly you have in your own home
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There are certain residence kitchen appliance items that may be far more cost-effective to solve than to exchange. Microwaves, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, dryers, stoves, for example. boost our own everyday lifestyles; all of us at times even come across ease and comfort by using these individuals. Whenever they receive shattered or even leave the workplace appropriately, eliminating them instantly in support of a fresh 1 is probably not fiscally sound. You can find a lot of situations wherein your not working can be quite bit of a, and only some trivial modifications or perhaps simple repairs could make an item always be as effective as fresh once more
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Professionals that present house fix solutions are available online or about the phonebook, in addition to many are able to appear over or even talk with an individual within the telephone to present free of charge estimates upon probable charges with regard to mending a particular house machine
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What to look for when hiring a professional appliance repair service?

Request coming from relations in addition to buddies first with regard to referrals. The individuals whoever viewpoints people confidence are usually the best supply of data relating to additional house appliance repair services they have experimented with previous to.

You might be possibly the on the net appliance repair forum or even an online advertisement of your commercial appliance repair firm, then you certainly must be sure so it states “licensed and also insured” to enable you to be certain you happen to be receiving the products and services from a professional who's been through any formal appliance repair training. The actual company’s point out license also needs to possibly be yet another thing you need to beware of. The permission quantity has to be valid as well as the insurance plan should be informed. Furthermore, you need to investigation about how precisely extended that will appliance repair corporation has been around enterprise and on what areas it works; an organization together with a lot of nearby record is frequently a lot more trustworthy given it goes as a result of certain measures to help keep the specialized reputation in the market. Yet another important thing not to ever disregard while looking for a good appliance repair service is usually whether or not the company is usually detailed in important world-wide-web internet directories such as the yellow-colored internet pages, Yahoo and google roadmaps, Aol community, for example. This should be detailed someplace; an extremely hidden just one might just be an new start-up or possibly a con. You must additionally keep in mind that appliance repair chicago
that advertise to a great extent may well impose much more than those tiny community kinds that really rely a smaller amount about marketing but major for the word-of-mouth distributed of the very good restore solutions.

For those who have ultimately decided on which in turn appliance repair business to go having, chances are you'll ask pointedly concerning the identify on the technical assistant who'll be maintenance anyone along with rapidly question for you to speak with the puppy 1st. Here, it is strongly recommended which you consult your tech just how long he or she have been correcting kitchen appliances. Provide the technical assistant the important points in the problem. Provide all of the indicators therefore that he or she can certainly think of probable advantages of the applying failure. This technical assistant will most likely offer a number of doable reasons for your machine difficulties also just before she or he provides the opportunity to are available above to your residence. Last but not least, request a great calculate of the repair price when you have discussed the problem. A specialist technical assistant is always eager to offer a single

It’s crucial that you remember that when you're looking for an appliance repair organization, make sure you examine their popularity. Uncover what additional prior consumers need to point out about these. Check out: www.aaaasc.com to learn more relating to locating a reputable appliance repair in Chicago or simply research by utilizing appliance repair Chicago. After you have the website, check out their own service areas to determine if they have got coverage in which your house is located. Next call the amount for the area and routine an appointment.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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Friday, December 2, 2011

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