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Auren Hoffman: How to interview A-Players

How to interview a players

via blog.summation.net

Very useful.

On stage with Larry Kramer at the Intel Summit

Be sure to read Larry's new book "C-Scape."

George Gilder: California's Destructive Green Jobs Lobby

Led by Al Gore's investment affiliate, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, the campaign to save AB 32 raised $31 million—more than three times the $10 million that the oil companies raised for repeal. Pouring in millions were such promethean venturers as John Doerr and Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins, Eric Schmidt and Sergei Brin of Google, and the legendary Gordon Moore and Andrew Grove of Intel. The campaign even managed to shake down a contribution from the state's public utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, and gained the backing of the GOP's eBay billionaire gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman.

What is wrong with California's plutocratic geniuses? They are simply out of their depth in a field they do not understand. Solar panels are not digital. They may be made of silicon but they benefit from no magic of miniaturization like the Moore's Law multiplication of transistors on microchips. There is no reasonable way to change the wavelengths of sunlight to fit in drastically smaller photo receptors. Biofuels are even less promising. Even if all Americans stopped eating (saving about 100 thermal watts per capita on average) and devoted all of our current farmland to biofuels, the output could not fill much more than 2% of our energy needs.

In the past, Kleiner Perkins funded scores of vital ventures, from Apple and Applied Materials to Amazon and Google. But now Kleiner is moving on to such government- dependent firms as Miasole, Amyris Biofuels, Segway and Upwind Solutions. Many have ingenious technology and employ thousands of brilliant engineers, but they are mostly wasted on pork catchers.

via online.wsj.com

Looks like Big Green outspent Big Oil 3 to 1 to defeat Prop 23.

IAB: Internet Ad Revenues In The U.S. Hit Record $6.4 Billion In Q3 2010

via techcrunch.com

According to Mary Meeker, the Internet takes up 28% of our attention but only 13% our ad revenues -- a $50B gap that will help keep this chart going up and to the right over the long run.

Posey catches NL Rookie of the Year honors

via sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com

Congrats to Buster for this well-earned award. There is no question that he transformed the team as soon as he joined the line-up and was vital to our WS win. In fact, I would have picked him for WS MVP over Renteria. Edgar certainly delivered some key offense and I don't take anything away from him. But this was a pitching dominated Series with two victories over the unstoppable Cliff Lee and two masterful shut-outs. The common element to all of those pitching performances: Buster Posey. Buster deserved MVP for what he did behind the plate (though what he did at the plate wasn't bad either). Anyway, it's great to see him win this (and it wasn't that close) and I look forward to seeing him as a Giant for a long time.

Quantitative Easing Explained

via www.youtube.com

Hilarious. And depressing.

RockMelt is pretty cool

via www.rockmelt.com