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Another Seattle company getting into book sales…

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ August 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

No, not Amazon.  Nope, not Starbucks.  Nordstrom has announced that they will be selling and publish a children’s book this Christmas season.  You know what?  I think it will actually work.
Nordstrom has such a personal connection with most of its shoppers that the customers will trust their person shoppers recommendations.  In contrast to Starbucks [...]

Sabermetrics for business? Investing?

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ July 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I have been a big fan of Sabermetrics for the past few years after reading moneyball.  Taking traditional stats turning them upside down and looking for new more useful stats in the game of baseball…that’s my rough explanation of what Sabermetrics is.
I just picked up the Football Prospectus 2007, which does the same thing for [...]

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