3 Ways Facebook Can Earn Wall Street’s Respect

Talk with @JeffMacke on $FB earnings on tap for tonight:

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Why The Search For the Next Facebook - or the Next Steve Jobs - is Fruitless

We are in a neverending hunt to find the "next Facebook" or the "next Steve Jobs." We never will. Here's where we should be looking instead.

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Here's My Fix for Facebook: Make Facebook a Subsidiary of Instagram With Zuck Reporting to Systrom

How could you radically remake Facebook into a mobile company? Make it a subsidiary of Instagram with Kevin Systrom running it.

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Facebook's MySpace Moment: Why Twitter Is Already Bigger Than Facebook

Facebook might have just hit its MySpace moment in coolness, passed on the way up by Twitter. As coolness goes, so goes, users, revenues and profits.

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Beware of the Facebook Rebound Says Jackson

My chat with Macke about the coming Facebook head-fake:

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Apple's 10 Biggest Mistakes Since Steve Jobs Returned

Apple has made an almost perfect string of decisions since Steve Jobs returned to the company in the 90s. What are its 10 biggest mistakes over that time period?

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Mark Cuban Is Wrong: Facebook's Ebersman, Zuckberg and Thiel Were Short-Sighted

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Andrew Ross Sorkin set off a firestorm in the tech blogosphere/echo chamber earlier this week with his New York Times' DealBook column asserting that Facebook(FB_) CFO, David Ebersman, was most responsible for Facebook's debacle of an IPO three months ago.

Well, the Facebook apologists have got their backs up on that one.

This creative Tumblr post took Sorkin's words and edited them to portray how brilliant Ebersman was.

Many folks on Twitter (and at TheStreet) said Ebersman was "not solely" to blame.

Others reminded us of the technical glitches of Nasdaqand how that caused the whole stock to get off on the wrong foot with investors "which cannot be quantified."

Then, Mark Cuban weighed in via WSJ's Marketbeat blog.

To blame Ebersman, Cuban says, is "180 degrees wrong."

Read the full post in TheStreet

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Why Peter Thiel Should Be Ashamed - And Resign From Facebook's Board Immediately

I don't have a problem with Peter Thiel selling his Facebook shares. I have a problem with him continuing to serve as a director and selling his shares

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Why Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon All Should Have IPO'ed Two Years Ago Instead of Waiting

Unlike the experts who believe Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon should have waited to IPO, I think the companies' rocky results as a public company show they should have gone public much sooner than they did.

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The Only Thing You Need To Remember About The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

I can't name any single one of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. But I do remember this simple 2 x 2 matrix on how to spend your time -- and you should too.

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Apple Integrates Facebook and says 'Fool Me Once...'

As part of the WWDC keynote from a few weeks ago, one of the expected announcements which was included was Scott Forstall’s announcement thatFacebook (FB) would be tightly integrated into iOS 6 when it comes out this Fall.

The announcement was greeted with applause at the event and most of the tech media concluded this was great news and didn’t say another word about the issue.

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Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Overestimate Their Own Smarts and Abilities

In the field of social psychology, there’s a concept known as the “fundamental attribution error.” Believe it or not, it has a lot to do with Silicon Valley and tech companies.

Basically, it says that all humans (including you and me) are born biased to over-value the importance of personal characteristics in driving others’ outcomes, but under-value the situational factors in driving others’ outcomes.


Yet, when we explain our own achievements in life, we are biased to over-value our personal characteristics as explaining our successes while also over-valuing our situation factors in explaining our failures.

From Wikipedia:

As a simple example, if Alice saw Bob trp over a rock and fall, Alice might consider Bob to be clumsy or careless (dispositional). If Alice tripped over the same rock herself, she would be more likely to blame the placement of the rock (situational).

In Silicon Valley, this type of thinking is so prevalent, you could say the “fundamental attribution error” has become “groupthink.” Everyone believes that the sun rises and sets on their pillow case.

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Why Facebook Doesn't Have Mobile In Its Founding DNA - and Why That Spells Disaster

Facebook - and all companies - have a founding DNA that is the key to their success.  However, when the competitive environment shifts, what served them so well in one generation is a mismatch to the next generation.

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After Dismissing Mobile for the Last 2 Years, Facebook's Zuckerberg Gets Religion. Will It Matter?

Mobile is going to be the biggest challenge ever faced by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.  Here's why.

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Who's to Blame for Botched Facebook IPO?

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- I was at CNBC in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. last Friday when Facebook(FB_) had its initial public offering.

The tension in the room among producers was palpable as the IPO was delayed for half an hour.

Then, suddenly, it opened. The stock quickly jumped to almost $45. There were whoops and clapping atCNBC. People were excited.

However, within 10 minutes, something strange happened. The stock started to fall. It was one long, continuous slide back down to $38, where the underwriters defended it for the rest of the day.

That day, on business TV, the Facebook blame game started. Whose fault was it?

I couldn't have imagined that outcome a few short hours before. I woke up around 6 a.m. that Friday. When I turned on "Squawk Box," there was a sense of excitement similar to the Superbowl for business media. Later that day, people focused on Nasdaq (NDAQ_)and its technical problems. Next, people started pointing fingers at Morgan Stanley (MS_) for retaining too much control over the offering.

Yet, Morgan Stanley was the lead bank behind the most successful social media in the last two years:LinkedIn (LNKD_).

In contrast to Facebook, which sold 421 million shares in the IPO, LinkedIn sold 7 million shares. Did Michael Grimes give bad advice to Facebook and good advice to LinkedIn?

Unlikely.

If Morgan Stanley wasn't the problem, who was? Facebook management, which is to say, Mark Zuckerberg

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Here's How Wrong All the Facebook Predictions Were

Facebook‘s (FB) busted IPO is so last week’s news now.  We’ve now become so used to it, everyone’s taken to slagging it on Twitter and in the blogosphere.

It’s almost like we were all in on the joke of what a botched IPO it was going to be — except that’s not true at all.

In fact, we all thought the Facebook IPO was going to be a huge hit.  We were dead wrong.

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GM Pokes Facebook in the Eye -- Why?

NEW YORK (Real Money) -- Tuesday's news that General Motors(GM_) is cutting ad spending on Facebook(FB_) was a huge shock to most casual investors. The concern among Facebook skeptics is whether GM is the canary in the coalmine leading other big ad spenders follow suit.


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Here's the 30 Second Zuckerberg Video That Should Terrify All Facebook Investors

Read the full post on Forbes here.

In the meantime, here's the full video, below:



[Long YHOO]

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The Boy Who's Going to Kill Facebook Is Playing Videogames in His Mom's Basement As I Write This

The one constant in the world of Web and Mobile is change. Facebook may be the "king of social" today, but there will be a new "king of mobile" shortly. Here's why.

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New Rumor: Facebook Seeking Local Partner To Enter Mainland China

Mainland China is usually never short on rumors in tech.  However, Marbridge Daily is usually very reliable.  It reported that Bank of America (BAC) would be unloading its stake in CCB several months before it happened last year.

Now, this morning, it’s reporting (via DoNews) that Facebook is preparing to enter the Mainland Chinese market through a joint venture with a local partner.

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