links for 11/3/07

• 11 Useful Stem Cell Traits – Pretty good rundown of what makes a good stem cell and what the technological hurdles are.
• 5 Tips to Spot a Hot (or Not) IPO – I particularly appreciate tips #2, #4, and #5 since they are ways to “read between the lines” when reading IPO prospectuses. Many a Wall Street white-collar is highly paid to hide things between those lines.
• Red Flags at Terra Nostra Resources – The lack of scrutiny in the Chinese stock market is just wild. This is a pretty good writeup of one stock that is “a paper mill masquerading as a metal mill. The dilution is out of control, run by a family with serious history of securities fraud run out of a Bahamian holding company.” I always love a good drama!

links for 8/26/07

• A veritable insurance software opportunity: Key Health IT opportunity: Medicare Says It Won’t Cover Hospital Error

• These three articles helped me understand the subprime crisis: Subprime crisis: Greenspan’s Legacy, How Credit Got So Easy, and Hedge fund letter outlines how we got into this mess
• Why in the world are anti-gentrification forces stopping this Mission District mechanic from building an apartment next to his stop and renting to his mechanics? Anti-gentrification forces stymie housing development