May 2011
51 posts
“Don’t be a Google bitch, don’t be a Facebook bitch, don’t be a Twitter bitch. Be...”
– Twitter’s Next Acquisition Target Could Be an Adtech Firm, Says Fred Wilson at Disrupt Conference | Adweek
May 31st
“It’s pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts... →
Isn’t it always. Twisting in the Wind, New York, NY Drew Sievers: “It all comes down to who gets paid and who makes money,” said Drew Sievers, chief executive of mFoundry, which…
May 28th
“And because photography as a craft is very simple particularly now in the...”
– BG 214: The Practice of Contemplative Photography | Buddhist Geeks
May 27th
“The nerds feel like they have a real community,” said Brad Feld, a...”
– New York Start-Ups Ride Tech Boom - WSJ.com
May 27th
May 27th
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“New Orleans has become an increasingly viable option for startups to sprout from...”
– Launchfest: 6 Tech Startups Vie For Rockstar Status | New Orleans Tech
May 26th
May 26th
“It’s not so much that [VCs] care about the money, it’s that the money is is...”
– Absolute Must Watch: Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt Paul Graham asking Ben Lavender of Dydra about his current customers and revenue at TechCrunch Disrupt.  Dydra is a Launch Pad Ignition company from New Orleans.
May 26th
“Journalists aren’t a very good market. There aren’t many of them. You can’t...”
– Absolute Must Watch: Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt
May 26th
“If I were you i’d stat over. You’ve spent 60 days on this. Plenty of companies...”
– Absolute Must Watch: Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt
May 26th
“Your product has to get people laid or get people paid.”
– The Secret Sauce in Sonar.me – Making the “Meatspace” Mainstream | Betabeat Would a woman CEO say this?
May 25th
“Odd Future is current. They don’t wait to make an album every year, they’re...”
– Entrepreneurship’s Odd Future
May 25th
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“Facebook has educated 700 million users on the power of connectedness but there...”
– Entrepreneurship’s Odd Future
May 25th
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May 25th
Microsoft’s WP7 Mango: “You Can’t Have Too Many... →
Um, yes you can.
May 25th
“What’s your view on the state of digital advertising technology today? Too...”
– Hot Deals Getting Done Faster And At Higher Valuations Says First Round Capital’s Fralic
May 24th
“What I’ve become good at is bringing things that aren’t necessarily mainstream...”
– What Investor Ashton Kutcher Looks For In Tech Companies Yes, quoting Ashton. i.e., what he brings is distribution.  Which is actually a good quality for a strategic investor.
May 24th
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“A lot more money has piled into the New York scene, but he notes a lot of it is...”
– Lerer Ventures Raises Second $25M Seed Fund for NYC Startups
May 23rd
May 23rd
“Banks and credit unions have to accept a reality about social media and then...”
– Social Media Do’s And Don’ts (For Banks) « Marketing Tea Party
May 20th
“We get the answers we deserve based on the questions we ask. If you want to...”
– Why “the filter bubble” is (mostly) hogwash, by @tdavidson
May 20th
“Yes, we may bound our serendipity by our sources of information (websites we...”
– Why “the filter bubble” is (mostly) hogwash, by @tdavidson
May 20th
“We don’t think people want to share their purchases period,” Swipely CEO Angus...”
– The End Of Blippy As We Know It
May 20th
“Algorithms are nothing more than a whole bunch of people’s opinions...”
– Who’s that Filter? // NoahBrier.com
May 19th
“The web is much better at capturing that mix of surprise and relevance than book...”
– stevenberlinjohnson.com: Can We Please Kill This Meme Now This was originally written in 2006.  Still a mistaken meme.
May 19th
“When Flickr first started, it was a social game around publishing photos. You...”
– The most important page on Flickr
May 19th
May 18th
“Doubtlessly, some companies will initially regard tagged photos the way many...”
– Why Facebook Photo Tags Are The New (And Possibly More Powerful) Likes | Fast Company But dumb will be more prevalent than smart.
May 17th
“Social media experts have begun to look askance at the Like system. It’s...”
– Why Facebook Photo Tags Are The New (And Possibly More Powerful) Likes | Fast Company Skipping past the entire point of the article (and I think the ability for brands to be tagged in photos is an interesting development), there’s just something odd about “social media experts”...
May 17th
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“Until then, there’s life.”
– Until then, there’s life
May 17th
May 16th
“There are all these creative techniques that young people come up with, like...”
– Fast Chat: Teens Hide Themselves In Plain Sight | Adweek
May 16th
“They key with 419 scams is always finding someone who wants a easy shortcut in...”
– The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment
May 16th
May 16th
May 15th
“Many people on Wall Street—and a number of telecommunications experts I spoke to...”
– This was about the 2009 sale of Skype, not the 2011 sale of Skype.  Awesome. Microsoft Buys Skype // ben’s blog
May 15th
May 15th
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“One of the challenges I foresee with agencies working with startups is that of...”
– Quoting @dherman76 of kbs+p Ventures in The Agency as VC | ClickZ
May 12th
“The math will set the marketer free.”
– Why the ‘Math Men’ Will Set Online Advertising Free | DigitalNext: A Blog on Emerging Media and Technology - Advertising Age
May 12th
“The Skype deal was a tremendous victory for big-name investors from all across...”
– peHUB Wire Yes, but no.  It’s a great return, no doubt.  But investment strategies are validated by overall returns, not individual deals.
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May 4th
“I suspect domain prices and pre-money valuations of newly launched startups are...”
– A VC: Finding And Buying A Domain Name
May 2nd
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“We can act on data, we can act on intelligence, we can act on wisdom. But wisdom...”
– via Taylor Davidson’s letter.ly Data is great. Analytics are great. But the applications of data are even better. (via sambirmingham)
May 2nd
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60 to Sexy: Final Stats →
60tosexy: All good things… I’ll have a wrap-up post later today or tomorrow, but here are your final scores for Season Four of 60toSexy. Taylor Davidson: Level 16  26360 points Barrett Garese: Level 15  22910 points Dave Holmes: Level 10 10691 points Evan Gotlib: Level 10 … Loved this experience, and very glad I met @Fitocracy, @richardtalens and @brianmwang through...
May 2nd
60 to Sexy: Season 4 Wrap-Up →
60tosexy: Season Four of 60toSexy began from a different footing from the previous three seasons. Seasons 1-3 were very loose in the aspects of both participation and expectations. Basically, do what you want, tell us about it, and we’ll all sort of keep each other honest. The result of this was we noticed… Thank you, Barrett.  Simply, thank you.  Looking forward to what you learn from...
May 2nd
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May 2nd