Worrying about where in the world to start your company is a wonderful way to defer the terrifying prospect of working really hard on it and potentially failing.
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@ Betaworks (via Instagram)
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We aren’t trying to make people buy certain things, we want to guide them through a story,” he says.
— Fab Isn’t an Ecommerce Company; It’s a Content Company with Sales | PandoDaily
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The pair coded a crude version of Tumblr — it was in private Beta in October 2006, and was released as a free tumblelogging platform in early 2007. Within the first two weeks, 75,000 users created blogs. “The one really cool thing was we could let you change anything about its theme,” says Karp. “It was just a big chunk of code you could rip apart and make original. And it attracted this spectacular community of designers and hackers. Over the next few weeks, they built gorgeous things on Tumblr that didn’t look like anything else on the internet. That still defines Tumblr to this day.
— Tumbling on success: How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire (Wired UK)
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Instead of optimizing for a minimum feature set (that had been defined by customers) a competitive analysis drives a maximum feature set.
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Things you can see from our window
The Mississippi River. A praline factory. A school where they make jazz musicians. A sly purple shotgun house. Church steeples. Tugboats, cruise ships, freighters, trains, every type of person there could be riding a bike, Mardi Gras peddlers pushing lit up carts. The Pontalba apartments. The corner where Homer Plessy insisted on getting on the wrong railcar bound for the north shore. The high rise bridge, the 510 bridge, the bridges over the Industrial Canal. The few tall buildings out on the lake in Metairie. The Marigny’s happy mishmash. The JAX building & the aquarium. The crescent in Crescent City.
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Wilson Miner - When We Build (by Build)
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We’re building Timehop into the best way of recording, remembering, and reconnecting around our digital histories,” co-founder Jonathan Wegener told me, “The data exhaust of today’s services can tell your life story, but so far this data remains disaggregated and silo’d across devices and services. The ‘history’ sections of most websites leave a lot to be desired and represent an opportunity to build a service that helps you celebrate the past and reconnect with others around it.
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Early Thursday morning, a woman was getting a piggyback ride from a man in the Lavin-Bernick Center lawn on Tulane’s campus, when someone grabbed her off his back from behind and stole her purse, campus police officials said.
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Everything positive that has happened in my life has been because I was open and prepared to say yes to a chance opportunities.
