For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
I don't know which other actor has done as many hot scenes as I have. I pretty much have the monopoly in the bed scene market in Bollywood.
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper!
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.
The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.
