October 2009
27 posts
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde (via justbesplendid) (via aestheticthoughts)
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the...”
– Winston S. Churchill (via kari-shma) (via abeshafi)
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft (via bluechameleon) (via vruz)
“We are pretty much the same as we were twenty thousand years ago. We have in the...”
– Aldous Huxley
There many other potentialities remain hidden in us. Let’s develop the methods and the means to actualize them!
via Tinkering till the end of time
(via zachklein)
“Everything I have learned that has been really useful has been by doing things.”
– Paul Buchheit at Startup School 09 (via hiten)
The future of branded advertising
tedr:
bijan:
Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising.
My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands.
Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous.
But I’m...
“You need music, I dont know why. It’s probably one of those Joseph Campbell...”
– Jerry Garcia (via newspeedwayboogie)
“…those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and...”
– Thomas Friedman - The New Untouchables
“our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
Bottom line: We’re not going back to the good old days without fixing our schools as well as our...
“The good food revolution cannot stop at farmers’ markets or natural food stores...”
– Will Allen
[via The good food revolution - The Boston Globe] (via ambivalence)
neekolas:
farawayfaraway:
Florence and the...
“I see this as a winning formula for segmenting plenty of existing markets:
1)...”
– Comment by Cindy Alvarez on Aaron Patzer preso - Lean Startup Circle | Google Groups (via hiten)
WatchMint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Startup Building 101 →
(via s0ren)
“People will pay for content if it is necessary, irreplaceable, and unshareable....”
– McKinsey: What Matters: Will people pay for content online?
Two sentences that demonstrate how much more Clay Shirky knows about the news industry than the news industry.
(via neekolas)
“And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they...”
– Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn - Telegraph (via amber-rae) (via msg)
Why content sites are getting ripped off ... →
“content sites have no way to track their role in generating purchasing intent. Often intent generation doesn’t involve a single trackable click. Even if there were some direct way to measure intent generation, doing so would be seen by many today as a blurring of the the advertising/editorial line. So content sites are left only with impression-based display ads, haggling over CPMs...
“ “Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both...”
– (via bleikamp) (via hiten) (via tedr)
“The new foundation for scaling a large org is providing authentic value that...”
– Andrew Kortina
Read the full post entitled: Community and Camaraderie are the Foundations of 21st Century Business
(via msg) (via mikehudack)
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held →
to deal with an uncertain future and still move forward, one should have “strong opinions, which are weakly held.”
“Then there’s the possibility that poor people have a greater incentive to behave...”
– I found this quote to be fascinating (hence why I posted it at the site). I had never thought of health as currency before, but it makes perfect sense. I buy health credits at the gym so I can eat a burrito afterward. Very interesting.
[my thoughts below in bold - RS]
I like this model, but not...
Sobering Numbers Behind Our 9.8% Unemployment Rate
abeshafi:
hiten:
bryc3:
15,142,000: People unemployed and looking for work-the highest number ever.
263,000: Jobs eliminated in September.
1,916,000: People unemployed in September because they have been laid off—the highest number in one month ever.
9,179,000: People who are working only part-time because they cannot find full time employment.
2,219,000: People who want work, but...
Hackable Investing
msg:
via jonsteinberg:
An expansion on my previous post, Hackable Business Development, came to me yesterday and is in some way an expansion on these comments I wrote on Andy Weissman’s blog.
Several times, VC friends have asked me about the APIs of a companies they were considering investing in. In each case, I either had built something or played with the XML/JSON/REST feeds. I struck me...
“Look at all these new companies in the Bay Area, all these supposed “tech”...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Thoughts for a holiday weekend (via ethanb) (via neekolas)
