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Andreesen Horowitz: Forget About the Exit
From Nate Hindmans summary of SXSW in Huffington Post:
“When we’re meeting with entrepreneurs for the first time, and they start talking about an exit, that’s an immediate red flag,” said Jeff Jordan, …
What are we doing this for?
But I feel like I’m hearing less of “did you see XYX company’s great new product” and more “are you going to so and so’s party at ad:tech:”. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that I’…
Justin Kan: Having a vision for what you're trying to build is huge
Justin Kan, the entrepreneur behind justin.tv, now twitch.tv, in Business Insider:
The most important things I think differently this time is having a vision for what you’re trying to build is huge. …
Make People Happy
Take The Walt Disney Company. Disney used to have a very clear mission statement: “Make People Happy.”
It didn’t say make people happy through animation, or theme parks, o…
Conscious info-marketers
I spent the last four days at the amazing Wisdom 2.0 conference (thanks to Terry for introducing me to it last year).
A big take-away is that conscious startups are for real, I’m not the only one thin…
What Conscious Startups are all about
The state of tech entrepreneurship is broken.
- People are burning out by working way too hard.
- The venture capital model pushes startups to an exit, yet most acquisitions end up as failures for the ori…
Glyphicons for Rails
So much so that I've created a set of helpers to allow me to say things like
<%= glyphicon :remove %>
and
<%= link_to_glyphicon :remove, … %>
Here's the…
Gasping and talking and sharing
But the most important thing an author can do is write a breakthrough book, one that makes readers gasp and talk and share. And the second most important thing a…
Smart, patient and confident
Zuckerberg didn’t just wait. He obsessively learned what being a CEO was about. He surrounded himself by people who had stren…
What sustains you
From Steve Jobs’ favorite book, Autobiography of a yogi:
“Swamiji, I am puzzled. Follow your instruction, suppose I never asked for food, and nobody gives me any. I should starve to death.”
“Die then…