Black Swan Seed Funding
Ultimately, VC’s will be structured peer to peer, but until then, Right Side Capital has a great approach. Lots of little plays to capture as many black swan opportunities as possible.
$2.60 to Save the World
According to this Cornell professor says implementing a $300/ton carbon tax would cost gas prices to go up $2.60 per gallon. Lucky for us the crashing economy will reach that target (and then sum) much, much quicker than any legislation to that effect would.
Inspiring Story of Fighting off Banksters
. Also a good report from someone on the ground on the state of the American financial system.
If your mortgage is under water, your choices have been falsely given as such: pay your bills as they are, or walk. So a lot of families are walking. Strategically defaulting and leaving. Adding more chaos and uncertainty to their lives. But there’s another option – loan modification. Lower the payments to reflect the troubled times.
Coupled with lawfare (delay delay delay, stall stall stall), this can keep Americans afloat.
Unfortunately, the same banksters that fucked up the economy have spent a lot of time and money pushing moralistic garbage about having a responsibility to pay your mortgage above all things. (Hilarious coming from that ‘profession’ that has spent the last 30 years destroying the middle class).
So its really cool to see a story of a middle class family winning for once. (With the help of a new breed of self taught, locally grown, locally concerned lawyer.)
Multitouch to Tablet
We’re likely to see a lot more of rich input going forward (not limited to text) – think of quick sketches to illustrate concepts. This is a nice jumping off point that uses built in hardware to enable new functionality. $15 for a stylus, $25 for the software to turn your multitouch pad into a drawing interface.
I would really like to see Inklet’s development team lead the way on transforming Open-Office to take advantage of the iPad’s additional real estate. They get tactile, visual software development.