A couple of weeks ago I watched an ESPN show about car auctions. During the program there was a nice old car on the auction block. The high bid was $30K. They put the BIN at $39K. The high bidder kept asking the auctioneer, “what’s real money”, “what’s real money”. […]

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This week someone left a message on my answering machine that they wanted to sponsor ColorCombos. We were pretty excited after receiving this message.
It turns out that they wanted to give me free hosting in exchange for a link on the front page. Since I use Dreamhost, I have no need for free hosting. […]

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If I were doing affiliate marketing, I would watch this video every day in the morning.

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Saw this story at Yahoo Finance today. Tesoro Corporation Terminates Rights Plan
Last year Tracinda offered $64 per share for Tesoro. Then Tesoro implemented this plan to dissuade a takeover. Now that the stock is floundering around the low $30’s, they must be hoping that Tracinda or someone else will be templated to […]

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I think the iTunes movie rental prices are too expensive. Let’s say you wanted to rent The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster. It would cost you $3.99 on itunes. Since I don’t have Apple TV, it isn’t easy for me to watch it on my TV. If I went to Hollywood […]

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Chris Perruna analyzes Chipotle Mexican Grill and compares it to CROX. Basically, institutional investors are slowly heading for the exits. Click here for the article.

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The Tesoro Hawaii refinery was shut down due to a fire over the weekend.
How much more financial pain will this unit to continue to inflict?

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Chipotle reported earnings tonight. Their net income was up 62% at 53 cents per share. Unfortunately, they missed analyst estimates by 2 cents per share, which sent shares down 13+% after hours. The share price was around $93.50 after hours.
I’m so tired of watching my stocks tumble because of over optimistic estimates.
Dear […]

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Tonight I was watching the Super Bowl and playing on the internet at the same time, of course. Lately, I’ve been watching the action in the LLLL.com arena. The prices of these domains are going through the roof. There seem to be 30 or more LLLL.com’s at SEDO with bids above their […]

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I read over at Joel on Software that they are now offering Copilot for free on weekends. If you are unfamiliar with Copilot, Joel explains:
How it works: You go to https://www.copilot.com, enter your name, and get an invitation code. You then download and run a tiny piece of software. Tell your friend the invitation […]

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