Ferrari Enzo's crash ($ 1.2 million)

The dramatic crash of a Ferrari Enzo in California a week ago has continued to feature prominently in the US media as more and more information emerges, fuelled by news that the suspected driver was a driving force behind the computer games console manufacturer Gizmondo which plunged into liquidation in the UK last week after racking up huge, unsustainable losses.

This report written by Hans Laetz in the The Malibu Times on Friday summaries the Enzo crash story and outlines developments since: Deputies investigating the Tuesday destruction of a US$1.2 million Enzo Ferrari said they have taken into evidence the blood-smeared air bag from the driver's seat, and will again question the Swedish millionaire owner of the car who says he cannot remember how his car was destroyed.

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Do you remember the Larry Ellison's Speech at Yale?

I assume that all of you know perfectly that was a fake. In some way, I liked that speech but nor Larry Ellison is able to say something like that publicly.

To compensate the effect of that, let me share with you one real speech from one of the men that has win all my professional respect, Steve Jobs. That is the speech that Steve gives at Stanford.

You can also watch it through you iPod Video using this link. Really, you only need iTunes to watch it on the computer.

Laptop stolen at Berkeley

Have a look to this story.

First, the professors threat

Second, the result

This guy not only portrayed himself as a Grade A idiot. Any true researcher KNOWS you do not permanently store so much important information on one laptop, and if so you don't tell all the world that all your important and private information was stotel.

Love prestige handbags!!! Why buy when you can borrow?

With this motto is born a new entrepreneur project that uses the same ideas of NetFlix but in the Luxury Purse market.

How it works? Instead of acquiring a really expensive pursue, the user pay a fix amount all the months and she would get a luxury pursue. When she gets tired of the pursue, sent it back to Bag Borrow or Steal and they will sent the next one chosen: Vuiton, Prada, Gucci, Fendi, Chloe, Juicy Couture, ...



One of our teachers has invested a lot of money through his Venture Capital firm. What do you think? Does it make sense?

Calico Electronico

The people of Calico Electronico are preparing the first flash movie for the big screen. It is going to be crazy. Some of the voices: San Francisco, Reyes, Carbonell, Coronado, ...

Lets have a look to the webpage and expend some moments with the teasers: Taxy Driver, Blade Runner, The Godfather...

Awesome!!!!

Wellcome to the Real World!

With this phrase Morpheous welcome Neo in the first movie of the trilogy Matrix. I want to take it and use it to welcome my friend Carlos to the digital revolution.

Today is a great day. Not only he joins this blog to publish about ..., but he creates his own blog: From Collado Hermoso, highly recommended.

The idea of love in the IB (Investment Banker) world!

Let's have a look to this article. I found it very interesting and it is going to show you some interesting ideas about the real life in NY, not the Sex & the city TV approach (that in the other hand is a very good proxy).

The Leverage Sell-Out: Free Meal Melissa. It is a "love" in the new world story.

To my loved Telecos!!!

  

To Read, When Genius Failed

Let me start a new kind of post in the blog, book recomendations. I sincerely recommend to read "WHEN GENIUS FAILED, The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management". Obviously a book centered in capital markets that requieres some understanding of spreads, bonds, stocks, treasury bills, and so on.

Regardless that it is a really easy to read book that give you some interesting ideas about markets, management and the humble need in every situation.

Roger Lowenstein captures the roller-coaster rise and fall of LTCM a "Hedge Fund" funded in 1993 by J. Meriwether including in the partnership two Nobel Prize winning economists and a cadre of Wall Street's and academias's elite traders.

Just let me say that this company almost collapsed completely all the financial system.

Beasts and the Beauty

Here is the picture of the complete team:

Will this affect the F1 championship?

My dear friend Jorge has the idea that Alessandra Ambrosio could be the final weapon in the BMW's fight for the F1 World Championship.

What do you think?



IMHO you can not have this beautiful model to represent the brand and have this couple of drivers :-(

"O", Cirque du Soleil

 

One of the most impressive things that you can find in Vegas is all the incredible shows that are in the city. Cirque du Soleil has actually "O" (Bellagio), Mystere (Treasure Island), Zumanity (New York, New York) and Ka (MGM). It is relevant to say that this shows are designed to performance in a specific scenario that is created inside the hotel.

"O" is completely unbeliveable. It is not just that the pirouettes, twins, spins, ... are incredible, is the scenario, the vestry, the pool, the pirate ship, ...

One of the best shows I have ever seen. 

It's Vegas, baby!!!!

What a city!!!

The impression that we have from Europe of Vegas is cheap, vulger, mean, ... These adjectives do not describe at all the real Vegas. Obviously, as any city, it has good and bad parts, however the overall impression is pretty good. Amazing hotels (have a look to the Wynn, Steve Wynn rose $4 bn in a IPO before constructing it), good and cheap food, a lot of entertaiment and gambling ...

  

Dude, where is my bike?

It has been snowing for the last day. Tomorrow, it is not going to be easy to find exactly where he/she has left the bike. Gladly, I walk ...

 
 

Blizzard of '06, no The Perfect Blizzard

New York has been covered by the white snow. What a magical picture!!! Really? This is the worst blizzard since 1947 (someones say that something call Ice Age was worst, but most of us do not remember this time) in the NY area.

Marta, do you want to know how they fight it? Let me show you (basically hard work and planning):

Chocolate requires now a sommelier

From New York Times:



So it has come to this. Chocolate, a comfortable world that for many people exists between the downscale joy of a Kit Kat bar and the exhilaration of a well-made ganache, now requires a sommelier.

It is no longer enough to understand the difference between milk and bittersweet. Even the know-it-all chocolate cowboys who brag about eating nothing less than 85 percent cocoa bars are out of their league.

Now, the game is all about origin. As with olive oil or coffee, knowing where one's chocolate came from is starting to matter. Even the most casual wine drinker can name a preferred varietal, and the neophyte cheese fan understands that Brie is French and good Cheddar comes from England.

Terroir, it turns out, matters in chocolate, too.

Read the complete article here.

90 years!!!

Today it is the 90th birthday of Columbia Business School. Feb. 7th, 1916 CBS started their walk to become one of the best Business Schools in the world.

Want to know more ...

6 more weeks of winter!!!

We are having the warmest winter of the last decades. It is incredible, but the temperature in NY is higher than in Madrid. We should be at -10 degrees and the temperature right now is 10 above zero.

Despite this, Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog, saw his shadow, that means 6 more weeks of winter.

Don't know what I am talking about? You must see: "Groundhog Day"

I am back!!!!

Finally, after the winter break, the classes start, ... I have found the time to start again with the blog. Sorry to the usual readers.