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Junky movies, junky start-ups

By gavin | Published: October 21, 2008
Waiting in line at Safeway, I noticed the crappy movies near the impulse buy candy: Adam Sandler’s Zohan and Mike Myers’ Love Guru and they got me thinking…. So many junky disposable movies get produced. So many junky disposable start-ups get funded. Where do the similarities end? Studios are a bit like VCs. They even share [...]
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More on the Long Term View

By gavin | Published: October 17, 2008
From Warren Buffett’s editorial, “Buy American. I am.”: Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of [...]
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