"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."
3 days ago
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.
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"Now I understand why everyone keeps telling me that Berlin is such a wonderful place, why everyone kept telling me to look forward to summer. Now I get it."
Merlin Mann:
For me, the real ‘zero’ in Inbox Zero is more about consciously managing the amount of our attention that we commit (or, far more often, cede) to thinking and worrying about what may or may not be piling up while we’re away doing the real work of our lives. Which is to say: the Real Work that’s not, in this instance, about fiddling with email or drearily suffering the daily fusillade of random requests and information bombs that get lobbed our way.
Put to best use, Inbox Zero is merely a philosophical practice of learning to be parsimonious about which and how many inputs we allow into into our lives—and, then, to responsibly but mindfully tend to those inputs in a way that is never allowed to hinder our personal commitment to doing the work that really matters to us.
Yes. A million times yes.
Unfortunately, it has taken me far longer than I care to admit to realize this as well. “Inbox Zero” isn’t about chasing down that mythical void of a number — it’s about realizing that you’ll never be able to, being okay with that, and adjusting your life accordingly so as to put yourself in the best possible position to actually get shit done.
