June 2011
1 post
“In a world where so many people now have access to education and cheap tools of...”
– Carlson’s Law (via brycedotvc)
February 2011
2 posts
“The biggest markets are made where laughably small ones once stood. For users...”
– (via brycedotvc)
“Don’t worry about style. It will be expressed no matter what you do. Style is...”
– Luke Sullivan, Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This (via austinkleon)
January 2011
3 posts
“Create a service experience around what you publish and sell. Whatever “customer...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“Dealing with the future, it is more important to be imaginative and insightful...”
– Alvin Toffler (via putitperfectly)
December 2010
7 posts
“Google sells eyeballs. To be more precise, the clickstream attached to those...”
– The Unbearable Inevitability of Being Android, 1995 « counternotions
“Apple sells emotional experiences. The price is what users pay to be delighted...”
– The Unbearable Inevitability of Being Android, 1995 « counternotions
“Just as with Twitter in the early days, it’s nearly impossible to find...”
– Signal, Curation, Discovery - John Battelle’s Searchblog
“I’m not claiming that I’m always right, because obviously I’m...”
– Paul Buchheit: Four reasons Google is still Awesome
“Are you fighting the future — or are you fighting for the future? There are big...”
– Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
“Here’s the big economic secret that we already know: 20th century...”
– Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
“And so of those of you who call yourself entrepreneurs in your Twitter by-lines,...”
– Reflections On Entrepreneurship | 24 Ways To Start
November 2010
5 posts
“Ask yourself and every member of your team what you are best in the world at...”
– The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product
“It takes alot for people to care about new people in the context of a new social...”
– The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product
“Once, some time ago, during another time of economic downturn, a president named...”
– Where I draw the line - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful...”
– Albert Einstein, quoted by Iain McGilchrist (via austinkleon)
October 2010
12 posts
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’. Then a...”
– Charles M. Schulz (via julie911) (via quote-book) (via chartreuse)
“While some of this will lead to useful innovation, particularly in the area of...”
– iPad as the new Flash – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
“Above all, realize that if you do create a strong cult, it will make you a...”
– Cult Creation: team building for startup founders
“Great advertising comes from great clients. The best creative people want to...”
– John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
“It was always an end-to-end system with Steve. He was not a designer but a great...”
– John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
“Suspend all disbelief, imagine that you are successful, and then work backwards....”
– Cult Creation: team building for startup founders
“Most problems—especially the very difficult and ‘knotty’ ones—are never...”
– KNOTS: the architecture of problems « LEBBEUS WOODS
“You’ll hear a lot about why company A won and company B lost in any...”
– Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Marc Hedlund’s blog
“I was focused on trying to make the usability of editing data as easy and...”
– Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Marc Hedlund’s blog
“Life seems to gravitate toward these complex states where there’s just enough...”
– Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From | Magazine
“Innovating is about more than just having the idea yourself; you also have to...”
– Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From | Magazine
September 2010
7 posts
“One wonders, if the federal government mandated that the car companies must...”
– David Byrne’s Journal: 09.23.10: Don’t Forget the Motor City
“A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against...”
– Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics
“Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can’t...”
– Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 - (37signals)
“I suggest that greed will be a negative value, because the dictum that naked,...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
“Taking something that is visible and making it invisible makes a politician look...”
– Danah Boyd: How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags
“I had hoped that we would do better this time. But it turns out that politicians...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - 1938 in 2010 - NYTimes.com
August 2010
7 posts
“At the beginning of every visual design presentation, particularly in the early...”
– Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Presenting Design Like You Get Paid For It
“A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the...”
– A VC: What A CEO Does
Stowe Boyd: Blogtalk 2010: Notes And Thoughts On... →
Facebook is not the future, but just a very temporary present.
“A specter is haunting the internet, and I think it’s even scarier than the...”
– The generative web event « Snarkmarket
“Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy.”
– Frank Chimero
July 2010
5 posts
“Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, once said that his method of design...”
– Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Magazine
“Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers.”
– Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Magazine
“I hate trying to re-create a tone or a pitch. Saying, “I want to make it...”
– Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ
Really, really good.
fred-wilson:
Slow Motion...
June 2010
12 posts
“The times I’ve made good products that won awards, made the users happy...”
– Scripting News: How to approach an alpha product