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People Putting an Extra 50k Miles Or More On Their Cars

People Putting an Extra 50k Miles Or More On Their Cars

By Jeff Nolan on February 19, 2010

Read this an it immediately resonated with me. According to a study by Auto MD, which is owned by the US Auto Parts Network, Inc. (i.e. people who have a vested interest in making parts for used cars) 77% of people are, on average, planning on driving their current cars at least 50,000 miles more […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California, car buying, car purchase, Economic, Laffer Curve, mileage, Sales tax, Tax

Laser Week

By Zoli Erdos on February 12, 2010

News on lasers of all sizes hitting targets of all sizes…  let’s start small – hey, small is beautiful, after all.  Besides, this is one laser you could own at a reasonable size one day. Small Gun, Lots of Small Targets Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold currently runs aptly named Intellectual Ventures.  At TED (not […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California, defense, integrated suite, Intellectual Ventures, Laser, Nathan Myhrvold, Science, TED

SF Looks to Unleash Entrepreneurs, Maybe

SF Looks to Unleash Entrepreneurs, Maybe

By Jeff Nolan on January 7, 2010

Image by azizk via Flickr This is the message that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is sending: “This legislation is trying to eliminate from the books the complete, unnecessary nickeling-and-diming of our business entrepreneurs during our worst economic recession since the Great Depression,” Chiu said. [From S.F.’s bid to wipe out some extra business […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Academy of Art, Building code, California, Entrepreneurship, recession, San Francisco, San Francisco Board of Supervisors | 1 Response

Tuesday Link Roundup

Tuesday Link Roundup

By Jeff Nolan on January 5, 2010

– The Merc takes a look at the diminished luster of stock options for compensation. There’s two things here, the first being that between AMT and option accounting rule changes the attractiveness of options for employees and employers has taken a big hit. Most people in Silicon Valley, and the tech industry more broadly, understand […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bono, California, China, compensation, Energy, High-speed rail, led, MIT, Nuclear power, robotics, San Francisco Bay Area, stock options, thorium fuel

San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

By Jeff Nolan on December 16, 2009

Normally I would tweet this but this feature in SF Weekly is so extensive and conclusive that it deserves attention.

It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year’s city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for […]

Posted in Business | Tagged California, Politics, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

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