August 2011
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dianakimball:
Introducing a distributed mentoring movement.
In college, I studied history. I researched amateur magician communities at the turn of the twentieth century and read all about Soviet department stores. But mostly, I was fascinated by the history of technology. And halfway through college, I looked up and realized that history was happening around me: that the internet was...
“Steve Jobs’ legacy isn’t the Mac. It’s not the iPhone. Or the iPad. His legacy...”
– Clayton Christensen in Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit
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When talking to entrepreneurs I try to understand their motivations for doing what they do and my most favorite ones are usually those that are motivated by something greater.
Which SXSW panels should I be voting for?
If you are on a panel or have a panel you are pimping, send me the link and I will vote for it.
Voted For So Far:
@ischafer
@david <—— this better win
@skwulf
@ryanmcminn
@carlosguzman
@drewhouston
@hutchins
@jcn
@lexiinnyc
@jayzombie
@rwise
@rachelsterne
@noraabousteit
@lkr
“I am nothing. It’s simple. If I were smart, I might be afraid of looking stupid....”
– Buchheit (via brycedotvc)
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“What I liked about Jared and Steve was that they were insanely confident yet...”
– davidtisch.com: Invest in People - #GroupMe
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“… studies show that people with the best self-control are the ones who structure...”
– Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? NYTimes.com (via somethingchanged)
Great life lessons here. (via mikehudack)
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George Taylor McKnight: Take Underwater Photos... →
gtmcknight:
TrendyDigital Kindle Case + TimeLapse app
Want better quality photos + way more than 24 shots like you’ll get out of one of those overpriced, waterproof disposable film cameras? I did, so I combined my TrendyDigital WaterGuard Kindle Case + TimeLapse iPhone app and the results were…
this is a great hack
“The number of emotional words on Twitter could be used to predict daily moves in...”
– This Is How a Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beat the Stock Market - Business - The Atlantic Wire
via @vkhosla
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Supposedly they’ve only been trading with this algorithm for a month but this is AMAZING. BIG DATA FTW
Best + Creepiest use of Facebook Connect To Date →
via @kmaverick
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SERIOUSLY YOU WANT TO CLICK THE LINK & WATCH THE VIDEO
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Zach Klein's Blog: I'm offering $1000 in... →
zachklein:
Skillshare is a service founded by my friends Malcolm and Michael that allows people to host and take classes with each other. Anybody can register to teach a class about virtually anything, you can offer it for free or charge an admission fee if you’d like.
I haven’t taught a class yet (it’ll…
DO IT
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in...”
– Ken Blanchard (via kareem)
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“listen to everything even if you heed no one, but just make it such that when...”
– Greg Battle
“In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong...”
– Ben (via brycedotvc)
“Over the past 10 years, technological advances dramatically lowered the...”
– Ben Horowitz (via gregnews)
“But if they hadn’t cared what “a Kickstarter project” would mean, then it would...”
– The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter - NYTimes.com
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Defining a platform without destroying it, is no easy feat.
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth →
READ & REREAD THIS !!!
How to Nail A Meeting
This is some real talk re: TechStars Mentor Meetings + any meeting by lexilewtan:
The other day I sat in on a mentor meeting that was more or less a disaster (note: this picture is not the team mentioned!). In an effort not to divulge details, I’ll say this - the mentor was jaded and cynical, and upon discovering the details of the product, decided he thought the company was not a gem. He would...
