Link: How Wall Street Middlemen Help Silicon Valley Employees Cash In Early (Wall Street Journal)

How Wall Street Middlemen Help Silicon Valley Employees Cash In Early: Financial firms create ad hoc market where hot stocks of closely held technology companies trade »

Link: Kevin Kelly on Disruption, Stagnation, Bureaucracy and the Media Industry

The Shirky Principle: “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds »

Link: The Death of Banking (As We Know It)

Banking is dead, long live banking: An anonymous investment banker explains why the banking system is just big enough to fail, and will collapse soon, to »

Link: Spotify's Imminent IPO (Financial Times)

Spotify hires Goldman to raise near $500m: Spotify has hired Goldman Sachs to raise about $500m, a new round of financing that is expected to value »

Link: The FT on the ‘Tech Bubble’ (Financial Times)

Dotcom history is not yet repeating itself, but it is starting to rhyme: Plenty of reasons to argue that this boom is not like the last1. »