February 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
“Men and women show more endurance, more resourcefulness and more humanity under...”
– Earl Cook, Man, Energy & Society
On the TripAdvisor IPO
Big win for the “golden age of SEO”. By which I’m referring to roughly 2001-2008 when “demand” for content (people typing in search queries) far outpaced supply (good content). Companies like Yelp and TripAdvisor (along with Wikipedia, IMDB, etc) grew huge during this period, almost entirely through SEO. They did this by getting highly defensible flywheels spinning where more content meant more...
August 2011
1 post
“What use could this company make of an electrical toy?”
– William Orton of Western Union, after turning down the $100,000 offer for Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patents
June 2011
1 post
“Work like a dog being taken for a walk, instead of an ox being yoked to the...”
– The Power of the Marginal
May 2011
2 posts
“Exponential change is sneaky. At first, you barely notice it. Then, suddenly,...”
– Gary Morgenthaler
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular...”
– Dr. Carl Sagan
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
4 posts
“What drives long-term investment success? In the Internet era, everyone has a...”
– Seth Klarman’s Baupost 2010 Annual Letter
“Instead of trying to rework some of the UI elements of the Chrome browser to...”
– http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/cortex-chrome/
February 2011
8 posts
“Only the hopelessly naive imagine that 30-something Google executives will...”
– Niall Ferguson: Americans and Revolutions - Newsweek
“A few weeks ago, when I stopped by at the Square offices, COO Keith Rabois, in...”
– - Om Malik
BUT… with Square, it’s going to be very hard to set the tone for the industry with massive incumbents.
“Q: In a certain light, wouldn’t nuclear war be exciting?”
– The Best Questions For A First Date « OkTrends
“Thiel foresees an age when, he says, “people will have a lower quality of...”
– Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical - BusinessWeek
January 2011
13 posts
“The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving...”
– Facebook Turns ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad - Advertising Age - Digital
“My proposal: less coffee, more original thinking.”
– Four Things Some VCs Do That I Don’t Like // ben’s blog
Amen.
“Groupon looked like a very high valuation,” Horowitz said, “but any investment...”
– -Ben Horowitz
….uhhhh, what?
Calling the top...
Just received this email:
Dear Friends — A friend-of-a-friend is looking to privately sell his/her Facebook stock.Please forward to anyone who may be interested. Thanks!
WatchMark Zuckerberg = Lloyd Blankfein
“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you’re good...”
– Wall Street Journal
“Maybe that’s why, within a few days of last January’s Baltimore...”
– Bill Simmons
“Philosophic thought, combined with scientific discovery, is as powerful to serve...”
– Charlie Munger
August 2010
1 post
Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google... →
Google Wave is shutting down and merging into other Google projects. Even if the app itself didn’t gain traction, it made us think about the tools we use to collaborate. Here are…
July 2010
2 posts
From CEOs to Opera Singers – How to Harness the... →
Sumo stable in Tokyo, Japan: you don’t need to be a superstar to use the Superstar Effect.
The following is a guest post by Cal Newport, MIT Ph.D and all-around whiz on competing against…
If You Build It, They Won’t Come. | Jason L.... →
June 2010
11 posts
Wikinvest Already Tracking $1 Billion In Portfolio... →
Finding the 'Weapons' of Persuasion to Save Energy... →
Shot fired across 401(k) industry bow : Retirement... →
All Our Ideas - A Suggestion Box for the Digital... →
Easy Web Form Builder for Online Forms | Formstack →
Early Proof That Geolocation Marketing Will... →
SEO in #20tweets - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog →
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How to test the viability of your online business... →
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