February 2012
16 posts
“You can be assured we are working as hard as ever this year to deliver an...”
– Tim Cook talking today at Apple’s shareholders meeting.
“We’re working on things that will blow your mind” is a pretty constant theme amongst those I talk to from time to time at Apple. While the competition is all aimed squarely at them, they’re not worried in the least bit because they’re aimed...
Watchmattangriffel:
I turned my series of blog posts on How to Teach Yourself to Code into a class and threw it up on Slideshare.
80,000 views so far! That’s more than I had ever anticipated
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“During the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin once went to a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike...”
– Look-alike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via soxiam)
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...”
– ~E.E Cummings
Wolff Olins Blog: What separates the best brands... →
wolffolinsblog:
For the last couple years, we’ve been traveling the globe talking to leaders at some of the world’s best companies and trying to learn exactly what separates the best from the merely good. Today, we’ve published our analysis of what we’ve learned, in a report called Game Changers.
A key takeaway was that even though companies today recognize the important factors required...
Bijan Sabet: Take my data →
bijan:
The Path story continues this week.
You can check out all the various posts on the subject on Techmeme right now.
The issue is that Path 2.0 had used our personal address book data to find friends that also use Path.
At the highest level, I think that is a feature - not a bug or a problem…
And Then, Suddenly, It Works →
parislemon:
Chris Dixon:
An idea getting tried over and over tends to be a positive signal (which is one reason that competition is overrated). It’s very easy when you spend lots of time around startups to get cynical. You could tweet and blog predictions that every new startup will fail and how the ideas are derivative and you’d be right 95% of the time. The hard part – and what matters for...
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January 2012
19 posts
“We know story. However, it’s the ‘telling’ of stories that is becoming ever more...”
– Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy and Content Excellence at Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company and ad agency McCann Erickson are exploring the future of storytelling as the inaugural underwriters of the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab. Read on->
newyorker:
Playlist: Pop Songs About Parental...
BRYCE DOT VC: Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop... →
brycedotvc:
As I tune in and out of the recent flurry of discussion around “big data” I can’t help but be reminded of the the old sailor poem:
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
If I had a nickel for every founder who told…
Bijan Sabet: Why Android is important →
bijan:
I remember reading on some blog that Android is important because the world needs a counter balance to Apple’s domination of the smartphone market.
I’ve read other people’s opinions that we need Android because it’s an open platform where google doesn’t act as a gatekeeper.
To me the…
December 2011
11 posts
“If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best.”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via david)
bijan sabet: My favorite albums of 2011 →
bijan:
In keeping with tradition, here are my favorite albums of 2011.
10. The King is Dead by The Decemberists. I saw them play in 2010 for the first time and was blown away. I bought this album the day it came out and loved it on first play. Great record.
9. Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron &…
“When I was 18, I spent one night trying to paint LATE AGAIN in big silver bubble...”
– Banksy
Necessity being the mother of invention and all.
Or, don’t miss the exact move you should make when it’s staring you right in the face.
“Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after...”
– A Statement from Louis C.K.
I Work For The Internet →
staff:
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop American...
BRYCE DOT VC: When Should You Listen to Investor's... →
brycedotvc:
Every startup I’ve ever worked with has THAT whiteboard.
You know the one.
It’s covered in hand scrawled notes from corner to corner then layered over with post it notes. All ideas for products or features the team can, could or should build.
Fred reminded me of this whiteboard today while …
BRYCE DOT VC: Capturing More Value Than You Create →
brycedotvc:
I didn’t get upgraded on my flight home from NYC tonight.
That’s not so unusual. I only get upgraded about 50% of the time. As I schleped it to my coach seat there was nothing too out of the ordinary save for a couple dilapidated seats with tray tables being held up by duct tape and one…
November 2011
42 posts
