December 2011
14 posts
nycdigital:
“Venture capital funding in the metro region topped $890 million in the third quarter, a level of investment that hasn’t been seen since the last days of the dot-com bubble…That put New York in the No. 2 spot behind Silicon Valley—and ahead of Boston—for only the second time in a decade.”
-Matthew Flamm, “NYC startups get snapped up”
Booyah.
“The way I look at it, things are always happening. Sometimes things that nobody...”
– Steven Hall - The Raw Shark Texts
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New Marketing Strategy
My brilliant idea to harness both the power of viral marketing and the echo chamber of tech blogs for evil my own good:
Write a press release/blog post saying that Alumni Spaces has been acquired by Google/Facebook/Microsoft/whoever for some fantastic amount of money. (Alternatively: we raised a fantastic amount of money from Andreessen Horowitz/Union Square/Greylock/whoever - worked for...
Frank Chimero: The Hyperlist: A List of Desired... →
viafrank:
Suggested Names for the Dogs I See in the Neighborhood All the Time
Elvis Costello Albums We Should Pretend Do Not Exist
Grievances Against America, Volume XII
Books We Should Collectively Opt Out of Believing We Should Read
Cheese Rank Index
Preferred Pirate Nicknames
List of People I…
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Voyager 1 Exists Our Solar System →
It’s a good week to be a nerd.
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Scott Kurnit’s AdKeeper Pivots to Keep.com, Where... →
caterpillarcowboy:
I don’t curse much, but are you fucking kidding me?
The original idea — to “keep” a folder full of your favorite online ads — raised $43M at an alleged $100M valuation? How are people completely unable to understand that to build something valuable you need to start with the customer and work backwards?
In case it’s not obvious, the new idea is awful too. This just reeks of...
Life Lessons
Never send your laundry down to get washed at the Marriott in Bucharest.
Just file this away for your future self, you will thank me the next time you end up in Romania.
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Long Roadmaps →
That is the power of a visionary founder leading a team to build the things that are only in his or her mind. I recall Mark Pincus, in the early days of Zynga, tell me about a game he wants to build someday. Zynga still has not released that game. When Jack Dorsey came back to Twitter, he said he was finally going to build Twitter 1.0. Think about that. And think about what Twitter 5.0 is in...