"There seems to be a new breed of entrepreneurs whose greatest skill is playing the political game."
10 hours ago"
Q: What country, on a per capita basis, is the largest consumer of YouTube?
A: Wrong, it is Saudi Arabia. The largest audience there, by the way, are women; the largest content category they watch is education.
"Last week a friend high 5’d me and congratulated me on finally writing a non-portfolio related post. I shrugged and shared that it’s been hard for me to get into a groove writing over the last year. My friend leaned forward and said, “It’s because you’re lying to us”.
I knew exactly what…
“A year into our new life we were feeling much like our little lemon tree. Tho we’d known many who were flourishing in the same state, in the same city, in the same industry, we weren’t. We felt our metaphorical leaves browning and beginning to fall off. For some reason, we were not taking root in the same soil that had been so rich for so many others.”
So many of our decisions are made out to be driven by cold decisions and facts. In reality, the big things in life are and should be much more dependent on your gut feeling and what your heart is telling you. That is how I lived my life so far and how I aim to continue.
Bryce, who I admire a lot, is telling a great story here.
"Today, we are introducing schemas in emails to make messages more interactive and allow developers to deliver a slice of their apps to users’ inboxes."
This. Is. Brilliant.
"GOOGLE GLASS HAS A “GLASSHUB” I stumbled upon this by accident as i was searching for the sensor drivers. The glasshub appears to be a external micro-controller that communicates with OMAP4430 over I2C. This is the hardware that supports the “wink” command. Strangely enough, it supports upto 20winks! Looks like someone didn’t learn their lesson with triple and quadruple mouse-clicks designs. On the other hand, this will be most essential when someone attempts to write a Google Glass app to detect seizures. Forward thinking as always, Google."
"Die Anzahl der Verkehrstoten ist auf Autobahnabschnitten ohne Tempolimit um 28 Prozent höher als auf Strecken, auf denen nicht gerast werden darf."
"You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation through button-clicking. “Social” is what happens when someone posts personal information—photos, thoughts, announcements, favorite songs, jokes—on the internet and another person comes along and clicks a thumbs up icon or a star or a heart. If someone’s really “social,” they’ll even type a comment or reply. Kids aren’t leaving social networks. They’re redefining the word “social."
"Eine positive Ausnahme bilden ausgerechnet Unternehmen, die von Finanzinvestoren an die Börse gebracht werden."
http://tomtunguz.com/when-to-hire-a-salesperson
To many entrepreneurs, hiring the first salesperson is a mystery. When should I do it? How much should I pay this person? How do I structure the work?
The great part about sales teams and sales departments is that they quantitative - sales…
An excellent take on sales team economics, explaining how your leads, pricing, and sales costs come together. Interestingly enough, a lot of Startups fall in the middle ground, where it doesn’t make sense to hire a sales team, and online only is difficult.
Check this out if you have ANY kind of direct sales activity.
Invest Online is now available to any startup that has a top-tier lead investor.
Prior to today, startups would apply to use Invest Online and we would select which ones got in. Now it’s a self-service feature for any startup with a good lead.
And, of course, startups can still use…
Marco Arment:
I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.
A seemingly perfect fit for the product going forward. Huge congrats to Marco.
I think this is perfect for all involved. Beyond that - shows you how Betaworks is becoming kind of a mini-Berkshire Hathaway of the internet. Buy and hold.
I believe a startup should feel like this.
I was at a First Growth Venture Network event last week. One of the panelists on the session was Katia Beauchamp, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of BirchBox.
Katia had a wonderful anecdote about how her first Mac was given to her by Steve Jobs for free. She was attending HBS in the fall and had been…
