Archive for the 'Bubble Redux' Category

The Bubble Is Back: “Naturally Curly Raises $600,000 in Funding”

Yes, you heard that right. Mashable:

Naturally Curly, the online community for people with curly hair founded in 1998, has raised $600,000 in a round of funding led by James Treybig, founder of Tandem Computers, a computer manufacturer which was bought by Compaq in 1997.

Who knew a site devoted entirely to curly hair even existed, [...]

80 Hours a Week … For What?

I got another spam from a company that’s looking for RoR devs. I replied back that I might be willing to chat with them to see what they’re up to…
But I remembered previous emails saying they are looking for engineers who want to work 80 hours a week… I explained, that’s a no go [...]

Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money. The Pigs? They get slaughtered.

It’s an old saying in the stock market that I try to keep in mind as I see a lot of irrational exuberance this time around in the Web 2.0 bubble.
We’re not nearly as bad off as the last go (yet?), but with companies like Agloco getting a lot of press, memories do start flooding [...]