Bijan Sabet: Some thoughts about patience in startup land -
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 foolishness. Most entrepreneurs are mocked and misunderstood until they are wildly successful, at which point the chorus changes from “good luck with that ‘business’, pal” to “I always believed in ya, buddy!” — Ashkan Karbasfrooshan article: http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/01/07/why-bootstrapping-over-rated/?icid=tc_home_art&
Mayor Bloomberg’s New Year’s resolution: learning to code through Codecademy’s Code Year.
“i think programming is finally being seen as it should be - as the literacy of the 21st century” —
Zach Sims
A VC: Some Thoughts On The Success Of Code Year
(via fred-wilson)(via fred-wilson)
“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/
NYC Digital: Everybody knows it. Tom Brady knows it (when he was racking up... -
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…
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“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.”