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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.
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1 day agoLast 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…
First of all: If you are making any kind of top ten list, and this is not on top of it for either best video, best song, best artist, or best everything, you are not good at making top ten lists.
Secondly: Macklemore is really doing something new, and it’s amazing to see someone not give any shits about what the established Hip Hop or music community thinks is right. His style is so refreshingly different, his content is so funny, engaging and sometimes simply strange, that it’s a real pleasure listening to him.
It’s hard not to relate anything I do to startups, but here is one take on disruption: When you are really f-ing good at what you do, you can take all the other details apart and rearrange them as you like. If some ragtag freestyler from Seattle (oh, wait..) would’ve come out with a video like this (camels, pirates, wolves, snow sledding, skydiving), it would’ve been totally out of place.
When someone who has arguably dropped the best album of the year out of almost nowhere comes and does this, it all makes sense.
That’s why Tim Ferris does 4 hours per week, that’s why Mind Candy has tree houses in their office, that’s why Googlers get 20% time.
(Source: youtube.com)
