Tag: business

Full Stack

SkyMall

one of america’s greats. snif.

The SkyMall catalog has always been good for a chuckle when you have absolutely nothing else to read during a flight and you just can’t sleep. Some people have presumably even bought stuff through the publication, as it’s difficult to sustain a business if the only revenue is punchlines. But apparently not enough of us are doing our inflight shopping through SkyMall, as the company has filed for Chapter 11.

BusinessTown

The 1300 year business

short documentary about a japanese ryokan run by the same family for 1300 years.

See also Kongo Gumi, which was the oldest before being acquired in 2006.

Radio Shack suckedal-jazeera

a horrible, and dumb chain finally croaks.

RadioShack is a rotten place to work, generally not a very good place to shop, and an untenable business to run. Everyone involved loses.

Streaming rates

how is there a factor 600 difference in these rates? i have no idea what a “fair” remuneration for artists is, but clearly neither does anyone else.

UBI pretend work

this is encouraging from a feasibility of basic income point of view:

If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

i’ve long suspected that people at most companies don’t actually do anything and would not be missed.

Pirate Joe

this is a pretty fascinating tale.

There’s a Trader Joe’s in Vancouver, now?” “No, there’s a Pirate Joe’s in Vancouver.” What unfolds then is a tale of entrepreneurship, adventure, legal turmoil, and something called “the grey market.”

How to get a job

good advice.

V.C. Firm Names AI To Board of Directors

Humans are emotional and subjective. They can make mistakes, but unlike the machines they can make brilliant intuitive decisions. Machines like VITAL use only logic. The intuition of the human investors together with machine’s logic will give a perfect collaborative team. The risk of the mistake will be minimized.