February 2011
37 posts
“In this city of everything big, all I have ever done is build really small...”
–
Gabriel Stulman
That moment, before something becomes the next big thing, is pretty special. Can there be this kind of scarcity in a digital world where ubiquity is so highly valued?
(via brycedotvc)
Path, right? Artificial barriers?
January 2011
73 posts
“The TechStars Network will connect entrepreneurs and startup programs from...”
– Facebook, Intel, IBM Join White House in Startup Investment Campaign | Fast Company
Nice to see some of the tactics of the Startup America Partnership mesh with what entrepreneurs are actually doing and want. Leveraging, rather than creating anew.
“McKinsey’s new survey research finds that companies using the Web intensively...”
– Rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Strategic Organization
December 2010. Not exactly cutting-edge research.
“Take it a step further: consider the Start Fund and the Facebook private...”
– US early-stage investors got out-innovated by a foreigner. Again.
“All other major ‘accelerators’ will likely follow-suit. Other...”
– @tedr nails it -> Is Yuri Milner A Threat To Silicon Valley?
“You need a whole brain to be a human.”
– Ten Things You’re Not Allowed to Say at Davos - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
No comment on the rest of the article, but love that quote.
“On top of that, the idea that these celebrities have “jobs” as...”
– Dumb Trends: Tech Companies Hiring Pop Stars As ‘Creative Directors’ | Techdirt
“I would bet on small countries and urban spikes becoming the focus of economic...”
– Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Betting on the LUSTI Nations
“Of course, teaching amateurs how to light their badly conceived images may...”
– A Photo Editor - Two Photographers On A Bus
“That’s really the great mystery about bureaucracies. Why is it so often that the...”
– Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar
“New payment methods will not kill credit cards, but may relegate them to a...”
– letter.ly by Taylor Davidson
“Cognitive surpluses will be put to use sensibly, rather than discarded. We have...”
– The Maker Generation in the Enterprise – confused of calcutta
In short, “Knowledge work is lumpy.” Let it be lumpy, because creating artificial smoothness kills a lot of value.
“The clincher, Peterson says, came from the wife: “She turns to me and she goes,...”
– The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine - The Atlantic
Sad.
“No risk analysis can ever be complete. No one can predict a flying cow.”
– Off Coast of Angola, the Will to Drill for Oil - NYTimes.com
The background to the quote above:
There is an element of uncertainty in every complicated engineering endeavor. “In July 2003, in the Pacific, a Japanese fishing boat was sunk by a flying cow,” Robert Bea told me. Bea is a professor...
“Goldman blinked and altered the Facebook offering because the risks were getting...”
– Goldman blinked on the Facebook offering. But will another investment bank take the risk? by Taylor Davidson
“Today, we have Facebook—not challenging Wall St’s rules, but,...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
Goldman to Offer Facebook Shares Only to Non-U.S.... →
This is big. As I said in my newsletter,
If being a public company in the US is so onerous that this Facebook offering is the clearer, cheaper, easier path to liquidity, then the securities markets in the US are in deep trouble.
Information Arbitrage: Why I like USV's... →
informationarbitrage:
First, kudos to my friends at Union Square Ventures. They are great investors, great people and provide awesome support for their companies.
Their recent fund announcement was particularly interesting to me as we discuss this issue at IA Ventures all the time: how to reconcile being a…
Would you charge people to access your Facebook if... →
“How do we solve the last-mile problem for entrepreneurs in highly regulated...”
– letter.ly
“Measuring influence takes a bit of science and a bit of art. Let’s not...”
– letter.ly
“TripIt got bought. Do you remember when Dopplr got bought?”
– letter.ly
“Worry less about being noticed, and notice the people around you, instead.”
– Conversation Agent: Connecting People is the Secret to Success (by @conversationage)
“Google is only the echo of our linking behavior, a second-order derivative of...”
– Meaning Is The New Search | Stowe Boyd
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