Disqus - Friends of Tuiblue

Re: Wine Values Week Starts Today. p.s. I am sad

Dan Ostermayer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:28:28 -0000

The opening said tv.winelibrary.con not "com"

Re: Wines To Have On A Birthday With Chocolate Cake

Dan Ostermayer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:09:46 -0000

Happy Birthday Gary!!

Re: The Ying and Yang of Public and Private Markets

Dan Ostermayer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:16:17 -0000

Fred,

The synergy between the private and the public is crucial to investing. You also bring up a hidden and often forgotten point that in the end fundamentals matter most. When you look at the most successful investors in VC and public spaces they are all people who understood good fundamental companies that may or may not have add the technical chart analysis to back up an investment. Fortunately in the private sector there really are no stock charts and only fundamentals. Thanks for the post. Very insightful!

Re: A Few Quick Thoughts on the Fed Plan

Dan Ostermayer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:36:31 -0000

I don't think the LIBOR Treasury spread can close until one or two financial institutions report less than negative earnings. Perhaps, GE will be the first next quarter since they straddling the fence of industry and financial.

Re: The Daily What

Dan Ostermayer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:14:41 -0000

joe plummer is going to be a millionare who hates to pay taxes! He also has a six-pack!

Re: A Master of Wine Visits WLTV

Dan Ostermayer — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:06:28 -0000

Gary! was he sponsoring the episode? This was not one of your best episodes...this guy was a little full of himself although he seems brilliant.

I give this episode a PASSSZZZ!

Re: Chardonnays Under $10 You can Find Anywhere

Dan Ostermayer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:40:35 -0000

Gary, can you include some mondovi?...besides for yellow tail they are the most common and i never want to risk buying them in case they are terrible...but i'm willing to take the chance if you show me some are good!

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - If we are going to call out Brit then we have to...

Dan Ostermayer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:48:43 -0000

Everyone should send Barack Obama a message similar to this one http://twitter.com/ostermay... and see if the team that twitters will really respond to the desires of the people.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - If we are going to call out Brit then we have to...

Dan Ostermayer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:49:39 -0000

Totally agree with Susan, we need authenticity especially in a leader.

Re: Election 2008

Dan Ostermayer — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:25:11 -0000

fantastic speech as always. i don't think he needs to be spending half the money his campaign has. All they need to do is create one composite video of all barack's speeches and then all of mccain's speeches and you will see who went to harvard.

Re: fredwilson.fm

Dan Ostermayer — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:11:56 -0000

Pretty neat Fred. Concept is like sort of like last.fm although not quite as useful since the music will never change and at most only have one song added a day. You should post out the code if you can so others can do this.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Doing what you love can lead to more than just...

Dan Ostermayer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:00:32 -0000

There is a chance you make tons of money but there is an equal chance that you make no money and need to go back and get a good job. It is important to be realistic about going freelance so that you know the chances of success and do what it takes to achieve it.

Re: Delayed Echoes

Dan Ostermayer — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:50:23 -0000

Probably one of the most zen photos I know. If only I could walk on water, I would follow this path

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Dan Ostermayer — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:59:17 -0000

Fred, I would encourage you to pick up the book "On the Study Methods of Our Time" by Giambattista Vico. Vico was a very old philosophy that is often forgotten but you will be blow away when you read his thoughts. He understood the essence of education and the means of teaching it precisely.

Re: Financial Sector Debt

Dan Ostermayer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:50:11 -0000

I think the below quote from your post sums up the financial sector perfectly:

""Party A pays Party B a fee (premium) to insure against the default of a bond. If the bond defaults, Party B pays Party A the value of the bond. But there are several important complications. First, Party A does not need to own the bond. This explains why there can be vastly more “notional” (the insured amount) outstanding than there are underlying bonds. Second, Party B can assign the contract to Party C (which can assign it to Party D, and so on), so that Party A does not really know who it has a claim against should the default occur and what the credit worthiness of that final party is.""

This ever increasing level of complexity of investments only sheds light on the simpler and more effective workings of public investor Warren Buffet and highly successful VC investors who focus more on building value and less on building the convoluted appearance of value through complicated and convoluted financial workings. I predict if we could actually plot a hypothetical dotted line of company value it would decline inversely to the necessity that these companies exist. The government is ensuring the existence of companies who's true public value is in the trash but need to exist for economics sake.

I think the current U.S. economy is spending a high sum of money and increasing the level of complexity to create artificial value.

Re: Pump Up Firefox With Juice, Now In Public Beta

Dan Ostermayer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:58:05 -0000

This has a lot of promise but seems to be slowing down my firefox alot.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - A reaction to Howard Sterns thought on Social...

Dan Ostermayer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:40:59 -0000

Gary by continually cheerleading social media and telling old media to wake up and embrace it you are hurting the emerging brand who will come along and be crushed by big media. Let social media evolve without a cheerleader calling everyone to the game. This "space" is not mature enough and there is not enough consistency and quality because it really isn't being demanded because ultimately it is about small meaningful circles of friends not about mass tv shows.

Social media will not be monetized in the long run because people do not want their friend circles monetized. WebTV may be monetized but that is not social media it is a front to get people to give up their time to be inundated with brands.

Social media does not equal social branding because a brand is not authentic it is an intimate object that can morph into anything it wants in order to sell crap.

Re: Hacking Education

Dan Ostermayer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:08:55 -0000

then we need robots for the factory ;)

Re: Just added “Likes”: an easy way to let people know... | Tumblr Staff

Dan Ostermayer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:43:03 -0000

i saw that david is asking questions in this tumblog...how do you send one of these "questions" out?

Re: Just added “Likes”: an easy way to let people know... | Tumblr Staff

Dan Ostermayer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:43:50 -0000

yea totally agree, and then maybe have a separate feed for our our likes similar to our archive!

Re: Just added “Likes”: an easy way to let people know... | Tumblr Staff

Dan Ostermayer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:44:36 -0000

yes a note would be good, and maybe integrate that note with disqus

Re: Just added “Likes”: an easy way to let people know... | Tumblr Staff

Dan Ostermayer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:45:02 -0000

it would be great if we could have a dedicated page like the archive page

Re: indie//andyy

Dan Ostermayer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:49:24 -0000

thanks for this vid andy...i never even knew this was coming out!

Re: JAY PARKINSON + MD + MPH

Dan Ostermayer — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:10:02 -0000

it's good to see doctors on the web.

Re: The most common question about Hello Health

Dan Ostermayer — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:14:00 -0000

Jay,
Have you gotten involved with medical schools to tell students about HelloHealth? I ask because I'm at Drexel and I guarantee you no one in Philly med schools are talking about this.