May 2012
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April 2012
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Starbucks vs Pret a Manger
This morning while on a train to work I read an article about Pret a Manger financial performance in 2011.
Instantly I wanted to compare this to Starbucks and other similar businesses. I didn’t have enough time so I ended up only looking at Starbucks.
I would think that biggest incomparability of these two business is the fact that Pret doesn’t do franchises while 38% of...
“Big Society Capital has £600m, of which the majority comes from unused cash in...”
– BBC. UK gov had 600m in dormant accounts. Nice.
March 2012
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February 2012
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“Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of...”
“We can study cars and all their physical relationships and know exactly how they...”
– Michael Gazzaniga, on complex systems
“in the age of unspoken blurring between work and leisure – in which, as we all...”
– http://www.scribd.com/paul_mason_01/d/79963708-Mason-Lse-Lecture-Jan-2012
December 2011
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October 2011
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July 2011
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Cell 211. Great movie →
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime...”
– Warren Buffett
April 2011
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January 2011
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September 2010
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“John Caudwell, serial entrepreneur and founder of the Phones 4U chain of shops,...”
– http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11350383
February 2010
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January 2010
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“suggested that average people hold cognitive biases in three key areas: a)...”
– http://www.damninteresting.com/the-total-perspective-vortex
December 2009
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April 2009
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“visits to its [dating] website was higher than average on days when the Dow...”
– Online-dating websites prosper in the recession
March 2009
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Radioshow - Audi 100; albumas: Underground
“financial services industry will suffer less than businesses which make solid,...”
– Robert Peston
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/03/time_to_hug_a_banker.html
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Beautiful song
“it’s very important to communicate that anything that spreads out your message...”
– http://blog.lyndaresnick.com/2009/03/c2c-rent-zilok-green-environmental-own/
Good analysis/critics of Nicholas Taleb's Black... →
“I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of...”
– Eric Schmidt. Via Nicolas Carr
“When you borrow a lot of money to create a false prosperity, you import the...”
– Wall Street on the Tundra.
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February 2009
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“Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148.”
Princess Chelsea - Your Woman (Whitetown Cover)
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“What is surprising is the degree to which human beings are not rational, and how...”
– Unfinished business - Economist
January 2009
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