February 2012
4 posts
“We aren’t trying to make people buy certain things, we want to guide them...”
– Fab Isn’t an Ecommerce Company; It’s a Content Company with Sales | PandoDaily
“The pair coded a crude version of Tumblr — it was in private Beta in...”
– Tumbling on success: How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire (Wired UK)
“Instead of optimizing for a minimum feature set (that had been defined by...”
– Death By Competitive Analysis « Steve Blank
January 2012
9 posts
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...
“We’re building Timehop into the best way of recording, remembering, and...”
– Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others | TechCrunch
“Early Thursday morning, a woman was getting a piggyback ride from a man in the...”
– Uptown robbery surge continues despite arrests of at least 20 young suspects over the last week » Uptown Messenger
“Everything positive that has happened in my life has been because I was open and...”
– The Minimalist Cabin Project | Andrew Hyde
“Neither place is in danger of being mistaken for a yoga studio.”
– Parasol’s and Tracey’s battle for Irish Channel roast beef po-boy supremacy | NOLA.com
“You always see who looked at what. This one queer action—showing who is paying...”
– The Social Network that Stole Christmas
December 2011
6 posts
“PERSONALITY IS API FOR LOYALTY.”
– A VC: Minimum Viable Personality
November 2011
4 posts
“Big businesses are built on the ability to 1) make people feel good about...”
– Just Perfect Enough
October 2011
13 posts
“There’s no easy solution. Should a company be expected to maintain...”
– Waxy.org: Andy Baio lives here
“The lesson here is for legacy brands: there is often more reward for creating a...”
– Myspace: Five lessons learned from the front - Fortune Tech
“So rather than advertise, they turned their small but loyal customer base into...”
– Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup - Forbes
“But visionaries are limited by their visions.”
– Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker
“From that meeting, I went to Walgreens, which is still there, at the corner of...”
– Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker
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“All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better...”
– Nobody Cares // ben’s blog
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hey amber rae: Let's Help Amit Defeat Leukemia →
Amit is one of my favorites. Please spread the word.
heyamberrae:
From Tony B’s post:
Amit has changed the world with his actions and through the people he has inspired. Anyone who knows him will tell you that he is one of the most special people they know, and they are right. Rarely will you find an individual with such a combination of warmth, charm,…
“He explained that he walked each day, and that each day he set a farther goal...”
– The Steve Jobs I Knew - Walt Mossberg - Mossblog - AllThingsD
September 2011
9 posts
BRYCE DOT VC: This Too Shall Pass →
brycedotvc:
About this time last year as I walked down the Embarcadero, en route to my office, I thought there was a 50/50 chance I’d have an FBI agent waiting for me in the lobby.
A few nights prior, only weeks after moving to the bay area and days after having a new baby, I went to a dinner at Bin 38 that…
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Gowalla: A New Gowalla →
gowalla:
Nearly three years ago I sat on a beach at Lake Tahoe and watched as a large low-flying cloud hung above the lake, creating the backdrop for a beautiful weekend of solitude. As much as I enjoyed the time alone to clear my thoughts, I was overwhelmed with the desire to share this experience with…
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“Be the opposite of secretive.”
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Developing new startup ideas
“Here in New Orleans we never speak about the quality of life, we only speak of...”
– Hansen’s Sno-Bliz
August 2011
13 posts
“The South—particularly (but not exclusively) Louisiana, is where “American” food...”
– SOUTHERN COMFORT « Anthony Bourdain
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Bustr Bensn: Announcing Habit Labs! →
Seconded. Yay, Buster.
buzz:
bustr:
I have something very exciting to tell you…My one-man shop, Health Month, started almost exactly a year ago, is growing! I’ve merged my company into Jen McCabe’s Contagion Health, and formed a new company called Habit Labs!
I’m not normally one to jump on the “congrats on your funding, bro!” bandwagon, but I’m a longtime fan of Buster, who I think is...