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Business Model Generation blocks (ppt)

It's the best business book that I had read recently.... It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or a game changer in a large corporation, BMGEN do wonders for visualizing your business model & communicating it better.

I had created BMGEN building blocks for using it in your presentation. The content is the property of Alex, businessmodelgeneration.com

 

Download Business model gen blocks in pptx format. 

HFT.. Yikes!! Time to buy a supercomputer to make pennies

HFT (High Frequency Trading) is the latest buzz of wall street. You know what.. computers are earth's biggest stock trader and an estimated 70% of trading volumes are generated by computers trading against one another. Those who have the best code and tons of computer chip wins.

At stake is billions of dollars for the Wall st giants and they are using computers to bully small investors like me.. It's time to buy a super computer to make my pennies.

From FT..

The technology essentially involves automated tick-by-tick, high turnover buying and selling, which relies heavily on the speed and sophistication of the network and computer systems involved. These are lightning fast and voluminous trades to take advantage of minute and fleeting changes in prices. Speed is obviously essential — as is beating the competition to an arbitrage opportunity.

Great HFT articles..

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/weekend-opinionator-is-wall-street-picking-our-pockets/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/nyse-builds-computer-trading-mothership-worries-abound.ars

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/-it-sounds-like-something.ars

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/07/08/60761/the-cold-war-in-high-frequency-trading

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/weekend-opinionator-is-wall-street-picking-our-pockets/

I'm a Mac & no more a PC!!

I'm bitten by the Apple bug and I had decided to go Mac.

Couldn't wait for the october 14th Macbook event

Zecco.com & My first stock trade in US

   

I had executed my first trade today in US and it's a commission free october at Zecco. Zecco.com is easy, clean and fast.

Disclosure : Hey I own a piece of  the company which makes your shiny iPhone

Carbon Footprint Reduction for Techies!!

There are tons of crazy ideas out there to reduce our own carbon footprint. Eating only veggies,  playing less videogames and recharging your iphone less often help reducing your carbon footprint but not practical for many. 

These resources can help Techies continue live their wired lives with less impact.

Wired: Using Web to reduce your carbon footprint

Energy Star: Bring your green to work