April 2012
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Five key skills that disruptive innovator’s... →
poptech:
Questioning allows innovators to challenge the status quo and consider new possibilities;
Observing helps innovators detect small details — in the activities of customers, suppliers and other companies — that suggest new ways of doing things;
Networking permits innovators to gain radically different perspectives from individuals with diverse backgrounds;
Experimenting prompts...
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Philipp - startups' little helper: How to pitch... →
pmoehring:
Venture Village asked me to share some insights on what to look out for when pitch investors. These points apply both for Seedcamp and other opportunities to present - from elevator pitches to partner meetings. Who are you pitching to and what are they interested in - know your audience
Very…
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Test Your Assumptions
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We make assumptions on a daily basis. It helps us navigate the world. In doing so we tend to live in the world that we created based on those assumptions.
It’s really important to recognize the decisions we make and what assumptions we are basing these decisions on.
It’s easier than ever to test these assumptions especially with access to services like Mechanical Turk & Google...
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“The Hobbit production shoots 6-12TB of camera data per day. And the shooting...”
– The Hobbit Will Fundamentally Change Your Movie-Going Experience | GeekDad | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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“Companies die from not being eaten by their competitors, but from self-inflicted...”
– Drew Houston, Dropbox (via sequoiacapital)
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“Human relationships are rich; they’re messy and demanding. We have learned the...”
– NY Times: The Flight From Conversation This stuff has been on my mind a lot. A whole lot. It saddens me. I’d like to change this somehow. I think I could have quoted this entire article it’s that good and spot on. (via kirklove)
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Kickstarter's $300M Year →
parislemon:
I remember Kickstarter first really coming on my radar two years ago when Diaspora, the would-be open Facebook alternative, shot past $50K in crowd-sourced funding.
They would eventually raise over $200K — the power of the Internet, and all that.
Oddly enough, looking back, it now reminds me a bit of The Hobbit. When Bilbo finds the Ring, you think: oh magic ring, kind of cool....
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Pebble watch
Check out Pebble watch an exciting product on Kickstarter http://www.getpebble.com/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone…
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“Some people say, “Give the customers what they want.” But that’s not my...”
– Highlighted by Eric Wahlforss in Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (via wahlforss)
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Developing a culture of ownership →
“they have instilled a Culture of Ownership throughout their organization by showing their people how and when ownership of a problem should take place and the costs associated with no one doing so.”
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Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Your Product Is Your... →
marksbirch:
On Monday, I was at New York Entrepreneur Week speaking on a panel about the Future of Tech. As it is a rather broad topic, the focus was specifically around marketing innovation in an age where the effectiveness of SEO has become significantly diminished. What tactics or channels might be…
the michael galpert experience: Make It Count Not... →
msg:
Earlier today someone saw me wearing the nike fuel band and mentioned that they heard the integrity of the numbers might be compromised.
I tried to explain how I couldnt care less about the accuracy of the numbers its more important to make sure that numbers are being counted in the first place.
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“More than $12 billion was generated by mobile gaming in 2011 with 34% of the top...”
– The rise of the billion dollar mobile gaming market (via courtenaybird)
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“In an effort to reduce the frenzy generated by the release of its latest shoes,...”
– Nike turns to Twitter for new shoe reservations, abandons midnight launches | The Verge (via jonathanmarcus)
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Melissa Miranda: Make Something People Love (+... →
melissamiranda:
Alexis Ohanian talks about design, community, and marketing in a great set of video over at General Assembly (that blissfully designy startup space in NYC). If you’re doing or even thinking of doing a startup, this is required watching.
Renowned entrepreneur and Reddit cofounder…
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“Look, I don’t think Google’s making us stupid. I don’t think Twitter’s the...”
– Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works (via poptech)
How creativity works
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Bijan Sabet: The Innovator's Patent Agreement →
bijan:
Patents were designed to protect the innovator. The idea was if you built something special that you would have the ability to protect that right.
And in many ways the essence of the patent system was originally intended to help the little company vs the big company.
But those days are long…
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“These micro- and supermicro-size social networks aren’t competing directly with...”
– Why Path is no Instagram (via courtenaybird)
Micro and super micro social networks
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TNT Ad Becomes the Second Most-Shared of All Time
allaboutthewebplace:
An ad for the launch of the cable channel TNT promoting the “drama” of its programming had a pretty dramatic debut. TNT’s ad has be… http://dlvr.it/1Rlc45
“Many people say you can’t. They’re ignorant. But it was true that we didn’t know...”
– Steve Blank, on the secrets of start-ups. (via theatlantic)
We are the Future
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Only Substance remains
The silicon name game is about getting attention. Attention is not affection. Attention is just the beginning not the end. If you want affection you have to deliver and if you want that affection to last then you have to deliver excellence. Once you get attention then what? Its what you can deliver that counts. A tech center needs five kinds of resources to work, livability, infrastructure, an...
The Silicon Strip new ad campaign ( a work in...
“Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we...”
– Data wars: Unlocking the information goldmine (via myserendipities)
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Coffee Common...so sad I missed this →
Behind the scenes footage at Coffee Common, TED 2012.
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Matt Mireles: Be Hated →
mattmireles:
Be hated.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and…
Be hated.
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Bijan Sabet: Which app do you miss the most?... →
bijan:
The other day I tweeted, “which failed startup’s app do you miss the most?”
I got a number of interesting responses.
One that touched my heart was Andy Weissmann’s response:
@bijan Tower Records
— Andrew Weissman (@aweissman) April 12, 2012
But by far, the most popular…
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Name Game
The silicon name game is about getting attention. Attention is not affection. Attention is just the beginning not the end. If you want affection you have to deliver and if you want that affection to last then you have to deliver excellence. Once you get attention then what? Its what you can deliver that counts. A tech center needs five kinds of resources to work, livability, infrastructure, an...
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iDisorder →
Data overload
laughingsquid:
You Can Now Embed Music From...
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Henderson man is Yu-Gi-Oh! champion →
Exciting news for the Las Vegas Based Konami Gaming local man is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Champion.
Luck was just one element Balan took to Long Beach, Calif., for the 100th tournament of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series — which broke a world record for largest tournament. “We were anticipating a maximum of 3,000,” said Yumi Hoashi, vice president for the card division of Konami.
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