December 2010
59 posts
Why is this what you do? →
A snippet of a story. I’ll let you fill in the rest with your own questions.
A snippet of a story, uncovered. Manhattan, New York City
So much to say, so many different directions to…
“You can only connect the dots in retrospect.”
– One empty argument | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)
“My perfect city isn’t fixed, it doesn’t actually exist, and I like it that way.”
– “My perfect city isn’t fixed, it doesn’t actually exist, and I like it that way.” | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)
Resolving: To worry less about what I don’t get done.
“Technology forced painters to re-evaluate, which transformed their work....”
– The Abstract-Expressionist Era of Management // NoahBrier.com
“But while the economic impact on hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents...”
– Whatever Happened to the Gulf Oil Spill? - TIME
“You are going to smile a lot on your trip. I don’t mean smile as in show your...”
– Planning a RTW Trip | Andrew Hyde
“Whenever we come upon a wild new frontier, we jump up and down and say...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Same shit, different medium
But read the rest, because this quote is just a small part of the critique, namely:
The problem with a high vantage point is that you can’t see the details, and if you stand there long enough you begin to believe that the...
“Better reader research. Narrower site topics. Lower ratios of aggregated and...”
– Conversation Agent: Challenges in Content Strategy for the Coming Year
“Which is why my advice for anyone trying to succeed on the web is, make the...”
– “the high-end microaudience”: the most likely way to make money on the internet | gapingvoid
At least for art. And for businesses? Targeting potential paying customers is obvious. Just don’t expect the masses to be your potential market: identify your “addressable market” and...
“People decide whether or not to be generous, they decide whether or not to take...”
–
Michael D. Eisner, in Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed, describing Warren Buffett’s investing philosophy.
The writing in this book was stilted in places, but overall I really enjoyed it. The lone genius is such a powerful narrative figure that we miss out on many stories of...
“… fund management teams with more task-specific human capital, as measured...”
– Predicting Startup Success by looking at the VC team - broadstuff
i.e., Technologists, strategists or ex-founder VC’s do better than VC’s without management experience. Read the study.
Onward, New York, NY →
Moving forward, onward.
Onward, New York, NY
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk not having lived at all. –…
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“… pop culture is nerd culture. The fans of Real Housewives of Hoboken...”
– - Patton Oswalt, “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.” Wired Magazine, Jan 2011.
I like the notion of the “method of consumption”, powered by the Internet, as Patton observed earlier in the article.
“The future of business belongs to the feminine archetype. The future belongs to...”
– Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Big Shift: Challenge and Opportunity for Women
Tech Firms Set Up Shop At Google Ventures' Startup...
Tech Firms Set Up Shop At Google Ventures’ Startup Lab, NY Times:
And with growing competition to fund the youngest, early-stage start-up companies, Google Ventures wants to set itself apart from other venture firms and angel investors.
How?
Google Ventures, which has grown from two partners in March 2009 to roughly 20 staffers today, has a small team of experts whose job is to help...
“Of course, no financial model is perfect. In fact, every financial model you...”
– Four Steps to Building the Perfect Financial Model | 24 Ways To Start
My contribution to 24 Ways To Start, an advent calendar for entrepreneurs.
“The confusion around Kno has been incredibly entertaining. When you explain it...”
– peHUB » Marc Andreessen: We’ll Invest Up to $100M in One Deal
“As a general rule, it is a bad idea to take strategic investment early in a...”
– Information Arbitrage - Is it Wise to take Strategic Investment as a Start-up?
One comment on the difference between these two quotes taken from Roger’s excellent post: there’s a difference between leading or following. A lead seed strategic investor could be a worry for an...
“Items on this pimp’s handwritten business plan — aka “Keep It...”
– Pimp business plan
“We could conceivably construct a world where access to Coke means access to a...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
“Let’s be honest: we put the “no” in innovation.”
– Executive and company name withheld. (via whitneymcn)
Hehe.
(via thewavingcat)
Dropbox put the ova in innovation and then got em pregnant with awesome sauce.
(via giantrobotlasers)
“To focus only on WikiLeaks is to miss the big picture of what’s happening...”
– Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
India Plans to Include Environmental Costs in GDP... →
Why is this important? As Umair Haque points out,
When GDP’s updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won’t work. The informational basis of the economy will be altered. Customers, investors, and regulators will have more and better information. In turn — and here’s the crucial part — India’s likely...
Congrats to The New Orleans Startup Fund →
Congrats to the newly-launched The New Orleans Startup Fund, a new $3.9 million fund to invest in high-growth businesses in New Orleans.
Nicole Gelinas in City Journal, Big Easy Rising,
“On his blog earlier this year, business consultant Taylor Davidson listed 58 such companies, from Audiosocket, which licenses music rights to entertainment companies, to TurboSquid, which deals in 3D...
“the Visionary can literally visualise (and explain) how people will use the new...”
– Entrepreneurs – so you think you can build a useful product? | 24 Ways To Start