May 2012
7 posts
“You can’t just look at sales orders. You have to look at how you measure...”
– Fab.com and the Value of Online Word of Mouth - NYTimes.com (via betashop)
“If you ever have a release with nothing left on your list of features to fast...”
– @noah_weiss
Bijan Sabet: When the heart overrules the mind →
bijan:
There is often a lot of “heat” around a company that is growing very fast. There is most likely a lot of growing pain that comes with hyper-growth but generally that is a high class problem (assuming the growth is authentic).
Founders, employees, investors and press will look at the metrics and…
“Companies die from not being eaten by their competitors, but from self-inflicted...”
– Drew Houston, Dropbox (via sequoiacapital)
I put this quote on a slide at today’s foursquare company meeting. This is the last thing any startup founder wants to be associated with. And I feel that being self-aware, honest and transparent as a company, with everyone in the company - and letting...
Where's My Billion Dollar Check, I Wonder - AVC →
“So if you are doing the startup game for money, and lots of it, you are in for a plate full of frustration. It must be for more than that. It must be for the love of the game, a passion for what you are bringing to market, and for the chance that you will hit paydirt.”
April 2012
6 posts
What Your Klout Score Really Means →
“Did my position on this issue evolve over the last 12 months? I am not ashamed...”
– Former MPAA tech policy chief Paul Brigner speaking to CNET about SOPA. (via bijan)
The Education of Google's Larry Page →
Page laments the tendency among technology companies to sue each other over intellectual property. “The general trend of the industry towards being a lot more litigious somehow has been a sad thing,” he says. “There is a lot of money going to lawyers and things, instead of building great products.” Google, he insists, has never aggressively enforced its own patents in search, and he blasts the...
Bijan Sabet: Breaking up your app →
bijan:
It can be quite seductive to try and stuff your entire website into your mobile app.
And many companies do exactly that. Their mobile app is a functional equivalent of the website.
And in some cases it works well. For example I can do everything with Twitter’s iPhone app that I can do on…
March 2012
2 posts
“the New York tech scene has more of a “let’s stick together” ethos about it.”
– i really enjoyed Josh’s rant about NYC. and I agree with it too.
Josh Miller, Co-Founder of Branch on moving his company back to New York (via nycgov)
“At one point it was like the Hatfields and the McCoys online,” says Joel...”
– http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/twitter-the-startup-that-wouldnt-die#p3
February 2012
2 posts
““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)
Watchbetashop:
Video. On December 8, 2011 I gave a talk at HackFwd Build 0.8 re: The Fab Story - from zero to hero in 9 months, 21 things we learned.
Jetlag included.
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
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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