Andy Kessler

WSJ: Patent Trolls vs. Progress

2012-04-13T01:22:00-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577336483746932506.html Microsoft announced this week that it's paying America Online $1.1 billion in cash for 800 of its patents. This comes just nine months after Apple, Microsoft and others beat out Google and Intel for control of Nortel Networks' 6,000...

Dunya (Istanbul Turkey) response to Newsweek 'Merkel Uber Alles' piece

2012-03-27T15:33:10-07:00

Google Translate needs some work (let alone their dream of a universal translator.) I'm not sure what this guy from the newspaper Dunya in Instanbul really thinks... http://www.dunya.com/almanya-ekonomik-gucunu-nasil-surdurebilir-147833yy.htm Crisis in the European Union is trying to quit. More precisely, Germany,...

WSJ: How Much Is Apple Worth?

2012-03-15T16:51:00-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304692804577281340088197580.html Apple is a juggernaut. Its stock touched $600 on Thursday, which represents $560 billion in market capitalization. Compare this to Exxon Mobil, with a market cap of $400 billion, IBM's $240 billion and Wal-Mart's $210 billion. Can Apple really...

Newsweek: Merkel Uber Alles

2012-03-09T10:17:06-08:00

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/03/04/a-bailed-out-eurozone-could-restore-germany-to-greatness.html It's clear what Germany is up to. Let the rest of Europe wallow in their own red ink. Let riots in the streets cause regime change. Dangle as bailout bait a "fiscal union" with countries giving up sovereign control...

WSJ: When Will Social Media Elect a President?

2012-03-01T00:30:00-08:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203960804577244961842322348.html The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 took place over seven venues, with 10,000-20,000 attendees and no microphones. One candidate would speak for an hour, followed by a 90-minute rebuttal and then a half-hour response from the original speaker (which alternated...

WSJ Video: Obama Hearts Twitter

2012-03-01T00:02:00-08:00

CNBC clip today talking about Facebook

2012-02-07T13:51:54-08:00

WSJ: The Button That Made Facebook Billions

2012-02-02T01:12:00-08:00

As bizarre as this sounds, one of the most valuable innovations in technology over the last several decades is Facebook's "Like" button. That's what has propelled the company to a galaxy-orbit valuation for its forthcoming initial public offering, filed Wednesday....

Eat People makes 800CEOREAD short list for 2011 Business Book Awards

2012-01-04T14:14:53-08:00

Entrepreneurship & Small Business (1 of 8 categories) Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs by Andy Kessler published by Portfolio The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business by Carol Roth...

WSJ: The Rise of Consumption Equality

2012-01-03T02:03:00-08:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577128230588463516.html It used to be so cool to be wealthy—an elite education, exclusive mobile communications, a private screening room, a table at Annabel's on London's Berkeley Square. Now it's hard to swing a cat without hitting yet another diatribe against...

WSJ: In San Francisco, There Are Many Ways to Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-22T10:43:28-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204485304576640962366762204.html I figured before heading out I would wait for the fog to lift to shine some light on the Occupy San Francisco annex of Occupy Wall Street. I'm not sure it ever did. What many refer to as the...

WSJ: How Wilson Greatbatch 'Gave Back'

2011-09-30T01:36:00-07:00

He invented the pacemaker. Wasn't he a benefactor of humanity even before he paid his taxes? Wilson Greatbatch, 92, died this week a wealthy man. Investing $2,000 of his own money way back in 1958 and tending a garden to...

Obama Jobs Speech Score-At-Home Scorecard

2011-09-06T16:05:25-07:00

I've written a few pieces on suggestions for job creation. One focused on the stimulus: December 25, 2009 - WSJ: Put Down That Shovel and another focused on opportunity: August 8, 2011 - WSJ: Five Ideas to Kick-Start Job Creation...

WSJ: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

2011-08-26T01:07:00-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576530460630468114.html If you want to know the secret of Steve Jobs, recall his advice to inventor Dean Kamen upon seeing the original version of the Segway scooter: "I think it sucks," he said. "Its shape is not innovative, it's not...

WSJ: Five Ideas to Kick-Start Job Creation

2011-08-08T07:04:00-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490064002634754.html Now that the debt-ceiling gyrations are over, the Obama administration is "pivoting" to its biggest problem—jobs. Unemployment ticked down to 9.1% in July, but the real unemployment rate, including discouraged workers, is still 16.1%. The stock market is not...

Audio version of How We Got Here available for free download

2011-07-06T17:17:07-07:00

Assistive Media, Inc. is providing a free download of my book How We Got Here from their webiste: http://www.assistivemedia.org/HWGH/HWGH.zip Be warned, it's a 415 MB zip file that expands into 18 mp3 files covering the 5 main sections of the...

WSJ: The 'Brady Bond' Solution for Greek Debt

2011-06-29T02:10:00-07:00

How much for the island of Mykonos? The Mexican standoff between European banks owning Greek debt and Greek taxpayers needs fresh thinking. I'm convinced that the only way out of Europe's financial crisis is for Germany to essentially own Greece....

NPR: Examining The Process Of An Initial Public Offering

2011-06-13T08:38:39-07:00

WSJ: Easy Money and the IPO Boom

2011-05-27T01:14:00-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576345740316053266.html It's no coincidence that last week, as the minutes from April's Federal Reserve meeting suggested interest rates won't go up for months or even years, Web professional network company LinkedIn went public at $45 a share. Its stock zoomed...

Moving to Twitter for email notifications

2011-05-03T16:04:17-07:00

I've been using Feedburner for years to provide email notifications of blog posts. I am canceling that service and going to use Twitter to send out notifications. Click the twitter button to follow. Thanks.

WSJ: Make Way for the Virtual Exchange

2011-04-29T16:07:00-07:00

http://on.wsj.com/j6JDf4 Should we care who owns the renowned New York Stock Exchange? Not really. Right now, the Germans want it. In February, Deutsche Börse bid $9.5 billion for NYSE Euronext, only to be topped on April 1 by a combined...

Stock Market and Oil vs. Monetary Base

2011-03-25T12:40:10-07:00

A picture is worth a thousand printed dollars! The Dow Jones vs. Monetary Base: Oil (West Texas Intermediate) vs. Monetary Base:

WSJ: Raise Rates to Boost the Economy

2011-03-21T01:39:00-07:00

The chairman of the Federal Reserve is stuck between a rock and a hard place—well, more like a house and a gas tank. How to escape? Mr. Bernanke, raise interest rates now. In order to the save bank balance sheets...

Mises.org Douglas French review of Eat People

2011-02-21T19:33:39-08:00

http://mises.org/daily/5047/Commerce-Is-a-Peoples-Revolution-Daily The big-box book business has begun to crumble with the bankruptcy filing of book-selling behemoth Borders. The Chapter 11 filing indicates the company is looking to restructure its debts and continue on. But as in the case of bankrupt...

WSJ: Dave Kansas review of Eat People

2011-02-18T02:09:00-08:00

Early in "Eat People," a business-advice book for "game-changing entrepreneurs," former hedge-fund manager Andy Kessler casts his mind back to 10th-grade chemistry to muse on the "highly reactive" nature of atoms and molecules called free radicals. Because free radicals have...

WSJ: Is Your Job an Endangered Species?

2011-02-17T01:21:00-08:00

Technology is eating jobs—and not just obvious ones like toll takers and phone operators. Lawyers and doctors are at risk as well So where the heck are all the jobs? Eight-hundred billion in stimulus and $2 trillion in dollar-printing and...

Investor Insight Outside the Box

2011-02-15T14:11:58-08:00

This week’s Outside the Box is a little unusual, even for me. But it will be fun, informative, and thought-provoking. My friend Andy Kessler has written another irreverent, gonzo book called Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs....

American Express Open Forum - Matthew May Guru, Review

2011-02-15T14:08:08-08:00

Now, a book on entrepreneurial wealth creation written by a Wall Streeter and former hedge fund manager might, at first blush, seem like one the average business reader would easily pass on. After all, wasn't it Wall Street and its...

Washington Post Express: Ready, Set, Start-Up

2011-02-14T12:54:30-08:00

Don't worry: Andy Kessler's not encouraging cannibalism. In his provocatively titled new book, "Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs" ($25.95, Portfolio/Penguin), the one-time stock analyst, investment banker, hedge-fund manager and venture capitalist shares what he's discovered to...

Response to WNYC Brian Lehrer interview

2011-02-12T09:32:47-08:00

from the blog Emancipation Propagation: Andy Kessler points out that to build an iphone in 1972 would have cost 100 billion dollars; one bit of memory in 1972 cost one dollar, and today's iphone comes with 32 gigs or roughly...

Mitchell York entrepreneurs.about.com review and questions

2011-02-12T09:20:00-08:00

Andy Kessler, former hedge fund manager and Silicon Alley investor, has published a book, Eat People, that every entrepreneur needs to read as a reality check on her business. In Kessler's book, entrepreneurs will find a yardstick to measure the...

How I got my VAX 11/780 (cutting room floor from my book Running Money)

2011-02-10T17:19:16-08:00

Digital Equipment founder Ken Olsen died this week. I wrote a piece for GigaOm about DEC and mentioned buying VAX 11/780 minicomputers with ratepayer funds while working at Bell Labs. I wrote this story up years ago for my book...

WNYC Brian Lehrer interview

2011-02-09T02:15:00-08:00

New York City NPR affiliate. The comments are priceless.

Black Enterprise Magazine slide show

2011-02-09T01:08:00-08:00

4 Rules for Entrepreneurs Looking for the Next ‘Big Thing’ Technology and the business climate have re-defined the rules for successful entrepreneurship. In his book, Eat People: and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs Andy Kessler takes a look at...

New York Journal of Books review of Eat People

2011-02-08T02:07:00-08:00

Now, after more than a decade into the new millennium, it is time to start seeing, acting, and doing things from a 21st century perspective. The rate of progress over the last century was more than ever recorded in the...

Brian Sullivan Fox Business interview: Productivity is the Only Way to Create Wealth

2011-02-07T15:06:06-08:00

Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com

Mike Masnick Techdirt review and short excerpt

2011-02-07T15:01:49-08:00

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110130/00441512884/entrepreneurs-who-create-value-vs-entrepreneurs-who-lock-up-value.shtml Andy Kessler is coming out with a new book today, called Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, which I wholeheartedly recommend. It's billed as "rules for entrepreneurs," but it's more than your typical "rules" book, in...

Brett Owens Contrary Investor Interview

2011-02-07T10:26:08-08:00

Andy Kessler Interview: Eat People and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs by Contrary Investing Click here for transcript of the interview.

Andrew Warner mixergy.com interview

2011-02-07T10:23:27-08:00

Howard Lindzon Stocktwits Interview

2011-02-07T10:22:21-08:00

The Week in Geek: Eat People review

2011-02-04T02:50:00-08:00

The Week in Geek is a terrific blog and newsletter from Prof. John Gallaugher of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He runs an annual Tech Trek for students through Silicon Valley and I'm often a stop in...

My new book "Eat People" is out this week

2011-02-02T19:01:01-08:00

My next book is finally done and out in the wild. Eat People: and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/ggTcnS Besides fun stories, the book is a set of rules or criteria to help entrepreneurs (or investors or job...

Newsweek: Geopolitics à la Google - Lessons for the world from a “horizontal” company

2011-01-31T10:41:39-08:00

Sometimes geopolitical lessons come from the strangest places. With Eric Schmidt stepping down as CEO of Google and replaced by founder Larry Page, I can’t help but wonder if world leaders are taking note. Google perfected the horizontal business model....

WSJ: How Videogames Are Changing the Economy

2011-01-03T02:07:00-08:00

This fall, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology announced that it had created the world's fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the shape of the world to come—but...

Techcrunch TV: Keen On… Is It Time To Get Rid Of The FCC?

2010-12-07T17:19:45-08:00

Spectrum Scarcity? Hardly.

2010-12-07T14:03:07-08:00

I got a lot of grief for suggesting in a Wall Street Journal op-ed "It's Time to Shut Down the FCC" that there is no scarcity of electromagnetic spectrum. Here are some of the comments the WSJ received: Mr. Kessler...

WSJ: Time to Shut Down the FCC

2010-12-03T09:00:02-08:00

It's time to close the Federal Communications Commission. This week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a speech outlining his push for net neutrality, the absurd notion that the Internet should be "open and free" when in fact it's quite expensive...

WSJ: What's Really Behind Bernanke's Easing?

2010-11-19T01:30:00-08:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704648604575621093223928682.html Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's $600 billion quantitative easing program has been roundly criticized in this country and around the world. So why is he doing it? Does he know something the rest of us don't? Mr. Bernanke claimed...

Real world catches up to (Grumby) fiction - Twitter moods and stocks

2010-10-15T08:50:40-07:00

Don't want to give too much of Grumby's plot away, but another real world sighting of technology from it's fictional world. This time it's predicting stock market moves based on the mood of Twitter users - a paper from Indiana...

Off the Phone Grid

2010-10-11T12:56:21-07:00

I have officially cut the cord with AT&T. Landline anyway. For now, I'm stuck with AT&T Wireless for our iPhones, but like many others who have complained, they don't work at my house. This wasn't a landline for wireless move,...