A few months ago I was invited to move my website to TheMaven.Net/Mishtalk.
Giving up control of a domain is not an easy decision.
I did so because I like the Maven Team. I believe they will better promote the “Mish” brand than I can personally.
Maven Team
- James Heckman / Founder and CEO – Background: Head of Global Media Strategy for Yahoo!; Chief Strategy Officer at Fox Digital; architected a $900 million ad alliance between Google and Myspace; founder/CEO of 5to1.com (sold to Yahoo!); CSO of Zazzle.com; Founder/CEO of Scout.com (sold to Fox); Founder/CEO of Rivals.com and Rivals.net (sold to Yahoo!)
- Josh Jacobs / Executive Co-Chair – Background: President of services at Kik Interactive, one of the world’s largest messaging apps; global CEO of Accuen Media; president of the Omnicom Media Group
- Bill Sornsin / Chief Operating Officer – Background: Ran MSN’s Core Technology team before joining Rivals.com as co-founder and CTO in 1999; co-founded Scout.com as CTO/COO; VP Engineering & Operations at Fox Interactive Media following its acquisition of Scout.
- Ben Joldersma / Chief Technology Officer – Background: CTO and chief architect of the single-platform national sports network Scout.com; CTO of the digital media advertising management firm 5to1; senior software engineer at Google where he researched and developed image visualization systems for Google Maps; a principal software engineer in the advertising platform unit at Yahoo!
- Ross Levinsohn / Director – Background: CEO at Yahoo! in 2012; President of Fox Interactive where he helped create one of the largest digital businesses amongst the traditional media companies; co-founded Fuse Capital in 2005; General Manager at AltaVista Network; Vice President of Programming and Executive Producer at CBS Sportsline.
That’s a partial list of names as well as a partial list of accomplishments.
What’s In it for Me ?
- Ultimately, I expect more ad income or I would not move.
- I am also struggling to get readership up on Mish Moments, my photography website. I recon the Maven team can help.
What’s In it for You ?
- Rooms: Many people complain about political posts. Others love them. If you do not want to read about foreign or US politics, you can easily skip such posts.
- Ask Mish: I have a new room called Ask Mish. If you have a question, ask away. Others are free to respond or to comment on my comments.
- Easier signup. You can use any existing email address to join.
- Easier commenting.
- I have two moderators who can remove offensive comments and make minor edits to posts.
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Once live, Mishtalk.Com will automatically redirect to TheMaven.Net/Mishtalk.
Thousands of articles have been converted minus the comments.
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Welcome to MishTalk on The Maven.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Yeah, I also got a boatload of your posts. Too many. But I do have something for you to look at: Harvard Management, which runs the endowment. Their returns were below the S&P last year, but that’s not the big story. I was truly shocked to see that 39% of their assets are in private equity, and another 31% are in hedge funds.
Holy smokes! The risk! When I was in business school, the standard asset allocation models were far more conservative. Too conservative, I thought at the time, but never, ever could I have even begun to imagine that a big endowment would stick 70% of its assets in high-risk buckets.
Honest to God, I had to check this three or four times before I would believe it. I’d be very, very interested in your take on it.
Let me add a thought or two. I wonder how much exposure Harvard Management (and other university endowments) have to commercial real estate. In San Francisco, sales prices of buildings are off by 50%+ this year, and I’m sure they’re not alone. Same goes for the big insurance companies; they’ve been raising premiums big time.
Another sector that’s laying a major egg is alternative energy. A big chunk of that is wind turbines, and a decade’s worth of well-known and little-discussed engineering chickens are coming home to roost this year. Check out Siemens and Vesta for examples.
I’m wondering what I’m not seeing. From a distance, this looks like Vegas-level gambling.
Just after you announced your move to a the new mavenhead web, I started to get about 100 comments from your web. To stop the flow, I’ve cancelled your comments to my email.
I just got flooded with 50+ from Mish.
Please make this stop!…
Otto
I do not know what happened either – will investigate immediately.
I think I see what happened. On migration WordPress missed some articles. I suspect they added them today and each sent out an email.
Apologies.
LOL me to