February 2012
1 post
““One of the really hard things to do as an entrepreneur is to not try and...”
– http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/16880129002/startups-are-not-a-chess-game
January 2012
15 posts
““The reason why gamification is so hot is that most people’s jobs...”
– http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576615371783795248.html
“Don’t let people tell you your ideas won’t work. If you have a hunch that...”
– Dennis Crowley
Find a muse, work hard, be principled, & edit every detail: everything else takes care of itself.
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 6, 2011
“Move over Wall Street. New Yorkers will be looking to the technology sector to...”
– Michael Nunez (via nycdigital)
Kickstarter - Designer Founders: stories by... →
melissamiranda:
Join me in backing THE book for designers. This book is the equivalent of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews and stories of startup founder who are also great designers.
Tech focused Silicon Valley has always lauded the engineers. Now it’s time for the product designers to be celebrated. Afterall, doesn’t every product or website need to be designed?
Back it on...
“While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem...”
– Obama for America on SOPA
(via joshuanguyen)
Yes we can.
(via bijan)
Bijan Sabet: Some thoughts about patience in... →
bijan:
One of the hardest things about life in startups, whether you are an employee, founder or investor) is patience.
Few examples, recent and otherwise, worth sharing on this topic:
Hiring
One of our portoflio companies has been looking for an important executive for months. Some of the board…
Spotify Doesn't Sound So Great to Some Artists →
“There were a bunch of artists who wouldn’t sell music on iTunes when that first started, and now it’s standard,” he says. “The same thing will happen with Spotify.”
“Entrepreneurship requires balancing unbridled optimism with delusional...”
– Ashkan Karbasfrooshan article: http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/01/07/why-bootstrapping-over-rated/?icid=tc_home_art&
“i think programming is finally being seen as it should be - as the literacy of...”
– Zach Sims
A VC: Some Thoughts On The Success Of Code Year (via fred-wilson)
Doctors going broke
“Doctors list shrinking insurance reimbursements, changing regulations, rising business and drug costs among the factors preventing them from keeping their practices afloat….”
Healthcare needs a reboot from the ground up. A lot of opportunity for entrepreneurs.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/05/smallbusiness/doctors_broke/
December 2011
5 posts
NYC Digital: Everybody knows it. Tom Brady knows... →
nycdigital:
Everybody knows it. Tom Brady knows it (when he was racking up Lombardi Trophies in Boston, he was getting his mail here). Mark Zuckerberg may have said he’d rather start Facebook in Boston, but the reality of it is, he launched offices in New York City. Clemens, The Babe, and Boggs: they all…
Stop Censorship!
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.. There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.”
- Hillary Clinton (United States Secretary of State)
Please visit:
http://americancensorship.org/posts/424/uncensor
and do you...
Call your representatives and tell them to block...
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November 2011
1 post
“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at...”
– Steve Jobs (via mokoyfman)
October 2011
4 posts
“All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better...”
– Nobody Cares // ben’s blog (via hiten)
September 2011
2 posts
““ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest...”
2 tags
“”A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to...”
– (via zoelulu)
Not a Randian, but I like this regardless. (via mikehudack)
August 2011
3 posts
“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas” - Steve Jobs”
“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are...”
– http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2994-the-problem-with-the-internet-startup-craze
3 tags
July 2011
3 posts
U.S moves to the cloud (at least partially) →
“Tapping cloud computing services, Mr. Kundra said, could save the government an additional $5 billion a year, reducing the need for individual government agencies to buy their own software and hardware.”
“I hope that college students trying to figure out what to do with their lives...”
– Michael Lewis
June 2011
6 posts
“Fail fast” refers to your projects and product iterations.. not your company....”
– Justin Kan, source (via chrisdumler)
Preet Bharara Takes on Wall Street Crime →
“In a recent speech in New York, Bharara surveyed the extensive rot of illegal activity on Wall Street and concluded, “The bigger and better question may not be whether insider trading is rampant but whether corporate corruption in general is rampant; whether ethical bankruptcy is on the rise; whether corrupt business models are becoming more common.” The Galleon case helps to answer...
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and...”
– Conan O’ Brien
Republican health plan haiku by Stephen Colbert.
inothernews:
Blood in the urine;
a tingling down the left arm?
Walk it off, grandma.
“no one gives a shit who did something first. It’s all about who did it right.”
– Microsoft: Wait, Wait, Look Over Here! Please! (via hiten)
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
6 posts
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
The Sleepless Elite - WSJ.com →
mikehudack:
There is currently no way people can teach themselves to be short sleepers. Still, scientists hope that by studying short sleepers, they can better understand how the body regulates sleep and why sleep needs vary so much in humans.
bijan sabet: Solving real problems →
bijan:
For as long as I’ve been working in or with consumer related startups, i often hear folks that don’t embrace this line of work say things like “that company is interesting but I want to work/invest in a company solving a real problem”
I gotta come clean: I think that attitude is bullshit.
There…