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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Watching The World Cup In NYC

Watching the World’s Game, in the World’s City

Outside Brazil, there is no better place to experience the world’s sport than the world’s city. Passion for soccer runs deep in New York ..... In 2013 alone, nearly 900,000 Brazilians visited New York City ..... Tonic, a three-story sports bar in Times Square that has been the de facto headquarters for the Netherlands during World Cups past. .... Amsterdam Ale House 340 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan ..... To love Italian soccer is to suffer passionately. To follow the Azzurri is to be superstitious. ..... El Pequeño Coffee Shop 86-10 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens

The World Cup Takes New York
World Cup Fever in New York's Little Brazil
World Cup Fever
World Mug: Here are New York's Best Soccer Bars
The 20 best New York bars for watching the World Cup
Best Bars To Watch Soccer

New York Times: Full Coverage

Tonic
(212) 382-1059
727 7th Ave,
New York, NY, 10019

New Cover Photo

This is now my new cover photo on Twitter and Facebook.

Montauk

Montauk, maybe. But the World Cup first!

Friday, June 06, 2014

The Only Way Google Can Grow Like Crazy

English: Left to right, Eric E. Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google Polski: Od lewej do prawej: Eric E. Schmidt, Sergey Brin i Larry Page z firmy Google (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The only way Google can grow like crazy - and crazy is double digits - year in year out is if it gets a few more billion people online fast. Universal internet access is still Google's best bet, a better bet than Google Glass - duh! - and the Google Car. It is imaginable when one company dominated the PC operating system, but it is harder to explain why one company dominates online search. You were told growing up the competition was only one click away. But Google does. And so no matter how you play it, Google benefits simply by getting more people online. As in, it can simply keep offering the services it offers, and bring in three more billion people online, and it will have passed 500 billion in market value, and that 500 is a conservative estimate. I am surprised it is spending only one billion on satellites. Google should spend 10 billion, maybe 20 billion, and get everybody online already, like within a year, or two, before Obama passes out of office. This is not charity yo, this is big business. Waiting would hurt. If Google takes 10 years to get everybody online, there is no telling another search engine will not show up. 10 years are a long time in tech innovation. Maybe Jack Ma has a cousin or two. This is called printing money. This is called zero risk taking. This is harvest time for Google. The hard work has already been done, and the money is sitting in the bank like banana.

For every billion Google spends to get more of the world's people online, its market value is going to go up by at least two, maybe five, sometimes 10. Bhagat's Google Law, if you need a name for the easy math.

Internet Trends 2014 By Mary Meeker

KPCB Internet trends 2014 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Via Fred Wilson

Wild Hardware Startup

Liu, who’d backed UCWeb, first heard Lei’s pitch over the phone, in a call that lasted from 9 at night to 9 in the morning. Liu recalls that Lei described a smartphone company that moved with the speed of an Internet startup, listening and responding to users, selling hardware at or near cost, and earning a profit on accessories and Internet services. Liu ended up supplying half of the initial $10 million in capital. The VC arm of Qualcomm kicked in a minority investment.

Xiaomi's Phones Have Conquered China. Now It's Aiming for the Rest of the World

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Followed By Dell

I am honored, what can I say!

How Funding Works

Via Greg Stuart

Quality Video Will Keep Fetching Top Dollars

They like to watch: "TV Apps Are Soaring in Popularity, Report Says" http://t.co/zMmOM6sZWx #Media #TV #Mobile #Apps #Culture
— Michael Parekh (@MParekh) June 4, 2014

The Internet will not make the Television go away. They will merge. And quality content will keep making money. It can be argued, more money. It is harder to make a top quality 30 minute video clip than it is to take one great photo. There is still a barrier to entry, but the barrier is lower, and so more high quality content gets in.

Ocean City

You need to believe this, I wrote my last post before I read this article, which is mind blowing.

The Next Giant Chinese City Will Float In The Ocean

The whole city is designed to be fairly self-sufficient. Tidal energy will power the island, and farms and hatcheries around the edge will provide food. Trash will be converted into more energy on site. The island will even have its own factory producing some hyper-local goods..... As futuristic as it seems, the island may be coming soon--a large Chinese property investment firm is reviewing the design now and expected to begin testing some of its components in 2015.