Category Archives: Bubbles

Enough with the Farmers’ Markets?

At latest count, there are around 7,200 Farmers’ markets in the United States. Of these, over 1,000 were established in this last year alone. Back in 2005 there were only 4,093 markets in the country. What does this mean? Well, no one can deny the rise of the farmers’ market. From coast to coast and [...]

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 [...]