Category Archives: Bubbles
The Next Bubble: Domains?
Those of you who have bought domain names have likely learned a couple of the ground rules: .com is better than .net or .biz. Short domain names are better than long. Dashes probably aren’t a good idea. If you have to spell it out over the phone it isn’t a good sign. The more memorable, [...]
Pop Economy – Exactly what it sounds like
After having reviewed Macrowikinomics, I’ve been having this odd sense of Deja-vu. It truly seems like this new mass-collaboration phenomenon has taken everyone by storm. Suddenly I hear people talking about a “new paradigm” and how “the rules have changed” and “things are different this time”. For those of you who lived through the dot [...]
Is Bubble 2.0 about to Burst?
Almost everyone has by now heard of Goldman Sachs’ offer for Facebook, valuing it at $50 Billion, and commentary on whether or not this can be a correct value. Fewer people have probably heard of all the other deals and offers going on the in the start-up space, but deals and offers have been growing [...]
The Proud Parents
The following is a contribution from a loyal DumbAgent fan. We are happy to feature it, not least because it ties to (and expands upon) our article on where Higher Education is headed. We have left the footnotes in, referring to his sources for dollar amounts, and while this article was not written by anyone [...]
The Next Bubble: Higher Education?
As we have stated before and before, certain factors need to be in place for a bubble to occur. Bubbles were thought to only occur in Securities, Commodities and Art. We now know that to be false, but it has been revised to say that bubbles cannot occur with services or non-durable goods, but only [...]
