March 2011
35 posts
Jack Dorsey on entrepreneurship →
Watch the entire video. This is absolute gold. (via @gurupanguji)
“Since Google’s business is advertising, shifting industries away from paying...”
– Kyle Baxter (via marco)
“We often pride ourselves for having tackled issues that no one else in the past...”
– Index Ventures Blog – Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Business Development
Awesome post by Mike Volpi on Business Development.
(via david-noel)
“The world is out of its mind with stupidity and the worship of stupidity.”
– Sean Penn, The Accidental Activist (via sirmitchell)
“He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into...”
– http://bit.ly/fN3enU
“I suspect that anger is evolution’s way of telling you to go kill...”
– http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/happiness_engineering/
Help Japan
bijan:
I can’t stop thinking about the people of Japan. So tragic.
Right now the best thing i can do is donate. I did that via sms last week but that only took $10 out of my account.
Amazon makes it very easy to donate to the American Red Cross to help victims of the Japan earthquake & tsunami
Here’s the link.
http://t.co/yD0RxYy
I just donated a much larger amount.
Please do what you...
Felt Tip blog: Slow Company →
felttip:
There’s the Fast Company magazine*. There’s the Slow Food movement. Let’s start a Slow Company movement. The idea is to take ideas such as the lean startup and organic growth and apply it to the companies we run. It’s not going to be a runaway success, but you have a better chance of actually…
“Which entrepreneur do you think has a brighter future?”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/the-lesson-from-two-lemonade-stands.html (repeating an old Godin post)
“The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself”
– Moot has it right
4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity | VentureBeat
(via fred-wilson)
““She taunts you, too, that’s the worst part,” Crowley said.
“I just like...”
– a trash talking nine your old is badass
9-year-old beats Foursquare CEO at his own game – What’s Next - CNN.com Blogs
(via fred-wilson)
The value of symmetric social connections →
The average value of a person I follow on Twitter has if anything gone up in the last four years (I have no idea if that’s true of my followers, but the great thing is it doesn’t matter). My following someone on Twitter is a true assessment of whether I care about what they’re saying. My being connected with someone on Facebook or LinkedIn carries no such significance.
“I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via vanityfair)
Every writer has felt this some time.
(via pegobry)
“So is a billion dollars cool? He ponders the question carefully. “No, it’s not,”...”
– Lunch with the FT: Sean Parker (via hiten)
SecretPlans.org: A Comment I Just Sent to... →
mwfrost:
My only problem with the entire Zappos experience is the infantile tone you use in correspondence. I don’t know why the tech sector has adopted this voice in its copy, but I find it condescending and repellent. For example, this is the text of my order confirmation email:
Your order with…
…” I can only imagine the tyrannical good cheer that must be relentlessly...
fred-wilson:
Empty Spaces/Young Lust - Pink...
Continuations: Marketing and Network Effects →
continuations:
Last week Fred wrote a post on marketing that attracted a lot of comments and replies — in part because it had some “bugs” but more because it was provocative. One thing that seemed missing from the discussion (and given that there was so much I may simply have overlooked it) was the…
Also (re)read all the posts that this post links to. Great stuff.
“The effectiveness of a group is not determined by the IQ of the group but by how...”
– David Brooks
