September 2009
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Leveraging NYC Talent (Continued)
Last week I posed a question regarding how to leverage NYC talent in the startup community. Initially, the most obvious pool of candidates seemed to be talented analytical brains in finance and consulting. Although I still think their skill sets are translatable to startups, there’s another group out there with serious potential: university researchers and academics.
NYC is home to some...
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Blitzen Trapper - Sleepytime In the Western World
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WatchFamily Guy goes Disney.
Empire of the Sun - Swordfish Hotkiss Night
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Online business model innovation can't slow down
Chris Dixon wrote a piece today asking if online business model innovation is slowing down. In relation to social media, my take on the matter is quite simple: it cannot slow down. This is true for multiple reasons. Mainly, I think that “where people spend time, money will follow.” If enough people are using the same resource to solve their problems, consume information, or...
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The Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance Song
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Grizzly Bear - Southern Point
Veckatimest has...
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What I've learned about startups (so far)
Seth Sternberg, CEO of Meebo, had a very relevant guest post at TechCrunch last week focusing on the traits of successful startups in the consumer internet business. He stresses two key characteristics:
Establish a great founding team.
Focus on the product, forget everything else.
Last night I went out to dinner with a friend who is getting the itch to start his own startup. There were two...
PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100... →
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.
(via: marco)
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Nas - The World is Yours
I’ve been...
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Passion Pit - Make Light
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Jack Johnson Cracks the Twitter Code
Or better yet, maybe Twitter cracked the Jack Johnson code. Check out how Jack Johnson is using Twitter to promote his new album. He has created his own Twitter Page which offers people a free mp3 in exchange for a single tweet. A tweet for a song. Is this the future of Twitter revenue? It’d be easy to set up a payment system for premium accounts that engage in activity like this. ...
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How can NYC startups leverage NYC talent?
Here’s a response/question I posted on a thread on Nate’s blog. There has been a lot of dialogue lately on the NYC startup scene and its potential. I think this touches on one of the key issues at hand.
I agree that understanding programming (jargon and the whole works) is a necessity. It seems like that can be picked up in a basic CS101 book, reading the right blogs, and...
Mister Softee Literally Threatening to Kill Rival... →
Who would have thought that something that brings people so much joy could be the source of such vitriol? Never has the world of ice cream been such a dangerous and scary place. You know something is wrong when ice cream truck drivers are dubbed the Mister Softee Mafia.
Devendra Banhart - Baby
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HUGE Theme Upgrades! →
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WatchSomething Terrible Is Happening: Protect the Insurance Companies
Monster of Folk - Say Please
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Change the world? Slow down there, buddy...
Recently, there has been a barrage of articles espousing the need for startups to set out with the mission to change the world. I think this notion is backwards. The software and services that change the world solve people’s problems in a simplistic and granular manner. They don’t set out with the ambition of changing the way people do things on a global scale. Solving...
“The thread that ties all of these things together for me is that technology...”
– Anil Dash
7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now →
Tumblr keeps on dominating these HuffPo shortlists. Congrats to KanyeGate, Why the F*** Do You Have a Kid?, Crappy Taxidermy, and Things Not To Ask a Cop.
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Jay-Z — Empire State of Mind
Alicia Keys is so...
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“CAPTCHAs are designed to allow humans in but prevent malicious programs from...”
– Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Google, you are so smart!
“Fast growing startup Twitter will soon be joining a select group of startups...”
– Twitter Closing New Venture Round With $1 Billion Valuation
(via: echolot)
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Vampire Weekend - White Sky
Solid track off the...
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
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Sublime- Santeria
Tumblr Wire →
Real time streams, trending topics, popular posts…Absolutely loving the new Tumblr Wire.
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The Beatles - Carry That Weight
Obama: Kanye Is A "Jackass" →
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WatchThe Room - The Remix Highlight Reel
One of the greatest (unintentionally) movies of all time - written, directed, produced, and starring Tommy Wiseau.
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The Beatles - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
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The Google Brain Drain Goes On →
Two Weeks of the Hard Knocks by DJ Red-Cent
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Commoditizing Complements →
Joel Spolsky lays out the economics of technological innovation (at least part of it). This will flip the switch for the light bulb above your brain. The article is over seven years old and it still rings so true.