November 2008
“Name me a single hugely successful internet company that is driven and built by...”
– Markus Frind (CEO of Plenty Of Fish) (via gtmcknight)
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being... →
A walmart guy DIED and a woman MISCARRIED b/c ppl are FUCKIN idiots today
Why do you use twitter?
via bryc3:
“I’m active on twitter because I want to be on my competitor’s and potential customer’s minds all day long”
— I was talking with a CEO the other day who is pretty active on twitter. He became active after noticing that all of his major competitors were following him. That activity lead to a number of potential customers following and it snowballed from there. There’s no wrong...
“Technology is not powerful unless it can be powerfully abused.”
– Kevin Kelly
minute 4:49 in this video interview entitled
Technology is the 7th Kingdom of Life
via O’Reilly Radar
Mumbai rocked by deadly shootings →
via mikehudack:
Why isn’t this bigger news? I mean, what the fuck.
WatchYouTube Generation Offers Free Hugs During Bad Economy on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
I was driving on 96th and Madison in NY and I saw these two kids walking around with a sign that read FREE HUGS and a laptop. I decided to pull over and see what they were up to.
Turns out Michael (kid with shades) and William (kid with laptop) have a motto
“Even though the economy is sunk doesnt mean our hearts...
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your...”
– Winston Churchill (via jackcheng)
“A different way to organize your energies that can be very effective is to be...”
– Jeff Bezos
10 Tips for Building a Profitable Business →
Great advice from the founders of Dogster/Catster
If being a business person is not your goal find a business partner immediately.
Consult anyone you know that has run a earnings-based business
Spend your money when it’s in the bank, not when the deal is agreed to.
Spend at least 50% of your time selling.
Know thy accounts!
Prove your revenue models before investing in them.
Don’t lie...
Beware of Knowledge
why experts and knowledge workers suck
via shawn over at iwc:
Knowledge is good. Knowledge also breeds contempt, and knowledge will shut your mind off to possibilities. We all want to have an open mind, but once you get that knowledge, and you think you know something - that’s when it gets real hard to keep your mind open. Experts (or worse yet, people who think themselves as experts) often...
Ray LaMontagne - Crazy (Gnarls...
“Our business does not operate on lock-in, ownership of copywritten work, or...”
– Ian Rogers
link via Betaworks
“I hate how the Vista advertisements rave about how parents can limit their kids’...”
– allisonweiss : mareen : ashleygibson : unicornology
Same here. I am who I am (good or bad) because of the hours upon hours, days upon days, weeks upon weeks that I spent in front of the Internet when I was a kid. God bless them, my parents always thought this was a good thing....
CncrtDmnd: Privatizing Concerts →
What if we created a place where people could come together to plan and execute a private concert?
via dherman:inefficiencies
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This would be lovely
“There are a lot more people than you think that will pay reasonable prices for...”
– Marco Arment via Instapaper Blog: On App Store pricing
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This is a must read for any software developer who would like to charge for their work other people to pay them for their work.
10 Benefits of a Recession - Michael Hyatt →
via gregnews:
It causes you to get more creative.
It forces you to make the tough decisions.
It thins out the competition.
It makes you realize you can’t take anything for granted.
It reminds you that real wealth isn’t about the stuff you own.
It fosters out-of-the-box thinking.
It makes it easier to abandon business-as-usual.
It brings you back to the basics.
It accelerates...
“Tumblrs are like bedrooms, and we’re teenagers spending idle hours postering...”
– Zach Klein
(via spunkfairy:amandoline:unicornology:mikehudack)
“if Facebook is even half as good at exploiting Zuckerberg’s Law as Intel was at...”
– Zuckerberg’s Law of Information Sharing
Zuckerbergs Law : expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before
via Bijan
Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying...
With all due respect at this moment in time I’m fairly unique & personally think its not rocket science and you absolutely shouldnt of read this because at the end of the day it’s a nightmare 24/7.
Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases
via fancyjeffrey
“It turns out that people are masters of saying one thing and doing another […]...”
– Official Google Blog: The art of the field study
amen. 2 golden rules of user test 101. never forget.
(via soxiam)
“So before you go for the wacky virtual click per social micropayment model,...”
– Charlie O’Donnell
from blogpost: Revenue Snobs