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Quick links for the weekend

Couple fun articles for reading this weekend:

BTW, my favorite quote out of the ninth grade fund manager article:

Brandon, who became interested in markets with a virtual-reality game
called Neopets and was setting up mock stock portfolios by the age of
12, wanted to start his own investment fund.

Are virtual goods teaching kids about economics and markets? :)

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Written by Andrew Chen
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
  • http://www.rahimfazal.com Rahim

    The Whole Foods link is great. Directing their early shoppers to stand in seemingly long weird looking lines, and among other efficiencies, staffing the store with loads of cashiers at launch to offer low wait times…now that is good fodder for word of mouth.
    Imagine the storytelling at the water cooler (or dog park?).
    I suspect it wouldn’t matter an ounce if the waits weren’t really drastically lower there.

  • http://www.dogfencediy.com/ dog fence

    I have read both articles
    How Whole Foods uses queue management theory to speed up lines and increase revenues

    Tales of a ninth grade fund manager via Paul Kedrosky

    both are nice

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