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Investing haikus: pearls of wisdom

Posted Feb 1st 2008 6:09PM by Zac Bissonnette (RSS feed)
Filed under: Internet

The A-Train finance blog recently posted a set of some pretty impressive financial haikus. Some of them contain wonderful financial wisdom in the 5-7-5 syllable format. Take a look:

Day Trading Is Hard
Ninety Percent Lose Money
Most Try Anyway

Reality Is
What Goes Up Always Comes Down
See: Dot Com Bubble

Compounding Interest
One Of Life's Greatest Forces
Start Young It's Better

Tragically I'm not much of a poet, so I won't try to top this haiku-master. For a wonderful subprime-inspired riff on subprime, check out one trader's Dr. Seuss-inspired Broker Joe! I do not like your CDO.

There's also an interview from Wharton about poetry and its similarities with investment banking. Not quite sure I follow, but hey.


Haiku PC: Microsoft's take on tiny

Posted Jun 8th 2006 2:08PM by Sarah Gilbert (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Newspapers, Microsoft (MSFT), Insider Blogging

The Ultra-Mobile PC is so ... last week. Microsoft is heading even slimmer (and, more importantly: cheaper) with plans for a tiny computer code-named the Haiku -- about the size of a paperback book.

The Ultra-Mobile started out with the code name Origami (does Origami sound bigger than a Haiku to you? What a strange mix of Japanese metaphors) and, when it was finally released, many industry watchers thought the Haiku was history. Robert Scoble made a point of complaining about the $1000+ pricetag.

With a price of $500-$700, the Haiku eerily fits right in to Scoble's strategy (either he's just smart about these things, or someone in Microsoft is paying keen attention to his criticisms). Via Technologies will provide assistance on the project and it should be available in the next few years. The question is: where does the useful vs. cool tradeoff take place? Is it a pricepoint ($500 seemed to be Scoble's argument, where coolness could outweigh utility), or a functionality? Does it require billions of dollars of customer education, or will the market eventually catch up to the technology? Investors seem to be saying no, as Microsoft's stock goes ever-lower. I think the cool factor -- at MSFT's current bargain-basement price -- is worth betting on.

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