February 2012
2 posts
3 tags
“It’s a red ocean when you’re fighting each other for market share. It’s a blue...”
– http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/02/the-deanbeat-billionaire-mark-pincus-breaks-out-of-quiet-period-exclusive-interview/
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
“Be so enamored with the product that you would work for the company even if they...”
– http://justtristan.com/post/7696394458/two-years-ago-today #hustle #ownyourdestiny
November 2011
2 posts
“Focusing on big goals rather than on making money, and on creating more value...”
– http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html
1 tag
“Process and schedules are mere tools for organizing people, don’t let them...”
– excerpt from a HN comment (lost link to…)
October 2011
3 posts
August 2011
5 posts
1 tag
“There’s a big shift to SaaS underway and companies are unlocking larger...”
– http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/08/users-first-brands-second.html
4 tags
The World's Most Valuable Printer Ink Company →
parislemon:
Holy shit.
It was crazy enough when talk began leaking out this morning that HP was spinning off their PC business — they’re the biggest PC maker in the world.
Now they’re winding down (read: killing off) webOS and killing off the Pre and the just-released TouchPad?
Yes, they have their large enterprise business. And now they have Autonomy. So essentially, HP is going to try to do...
July 2011
10 posts
bijan:
Stars - Celebration Guns
Digging this...
“Contributory databases. The magic of these businesses is that a customer...”
– Information Arbitrage - Creating competitive advantage through data
“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over...”
– http://agilemanifesto.org/
Schumpeter: Too much information | The Economist →
roelofbotha:
… focus and creativity are connected. People are more likely to be creative if they are allowed to focus on something for some time without interruptions. If constantly interrupted or forced to attend meetings, they are less likely to be creative.
… people who complete certain tasks in parallel take much longer and make many more errors than people who complete the same tasks in...
“It takes inspired people to make inspiring products.”
– word
Zynga: The IPO Prospectus Letter From CEO Mark Pincus - Eric Savitz - The Tech Trade - Forbes (via fred-wilson)
“We see a uniting factor in our dedication to customer service. Instead of...”
– http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219938
March 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
Kill Parasitic Features, Fix Some Broken →
Many times the quickest way to grow a business is to fix something that’s broken or to kill parasitic features. Some companies I’ve worked at are so focused on launching new things that they never take the time to figure out if what they launched in the past is working or not.
Product / Project →
Today, as websites have become increasingly important in business, they are, unfortunately, still being managed as projects. This becomes a problem in meeting defined business objectives, prioritizing, having the right skills to manage what has now become a core business function. If the website has become or is a core business function there is a greater need than managing a project, it has...
November 2010
2 posts
“Using the mobile web as a constraint to think about web design is growing in...”
– http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/mobile-first-web-second-continued.html
“We actually got an entire version of Burbn done as an iPhone app, but it felt...”
– http://www.quora.com/Instagram/What-is-the-story-behind-Instagram
October 2010
3 posts
“For every company with a great product in its nascent stages, there are...”
– http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/how-to-save-money-during-the-early-days-of-a-startup/
“Aggregation, in general, is probably more effective as a second-order feature of...”
– http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/
1 tag
April 2010
1 post
Save UC Davis Wrestling! Program getting disc....
Dear Wrestling Supporters,
It is with great regret that I write to inform you that UC Davis Athletic Director Greg Warzecka has announced the discontinuation of wrestling at UC Davis. This came as a shock to our student-athletes, staff, and especially myself.
I was told last fall that no matter what may come to be, football and wrestling were safe at UC Davis. As a program, we have had the...
March 2010
2 posts
“THE REALPOLITIK: COMMON STANDARDS = COMMODITY STANDARDS FOR MANY
The...”
– In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It.
“Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said last month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...”
– Yahoo Disbands Mobile Group As Part Of Reorganization | mocoNews
February 2010
4 posts
“One of the things that I didn’t think about before I started my first...”
– Meat In The Sky Blog
Scott Rafer's Blog: History Repeating itself →
tylerhwillis:
Rafer sez: In the middle of Facebook Posts Phenomenal Growth In Search, it hit me: Google really is the new Microsoft, and Microsoft the new Yahoo.
Facebook has ~2.5% search market share, almost what M$/Bing has gained in the last year. Microsoft paid a ton for their market share…
“I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going...”
– Oprah Winfrey (via hiten)
December 2009
2 posts
October 2009
5 posts
WatchPeople buy a lot of goods. Slide doing well with their shift to virtual goods. Nears porfitability.
“Today, if you take out a display ad on the Internet, you’re likely to see...”
– The death of advertising authenticity - garry’s posterous
Fueling Web Engineers.
Steve: Did you read the news on amazon offering their 1-click MPS to their merchants? (link: http://bit.ly/QryUX)
I think that's pretty significant stuff (for the continued development of self-sustaining mobile web).
Joshua: yeah people can now buy even more useless crap! :)
Steve: That makes your career even more bright.
I hope that's a genuine smile.
Joshua: my career? just job prospects, man
My career is going to be in politics and public service.
All I'm doing is gathering funds and building my network of campaign donors
Steve: Hard to buy the senorita LV handbags working in the public service sector.
"the useless crap"
Joshua: hahaha
Comcast zigs while Time Warner zags
bijan:
It seems likely that Comcast will acquire a controlling interest in NBC Universal.
In a way it’s nothing new for a cable operator to seek control of cable properties. That was John Malone’s playbook when he ran TCI.
But i think it’s interesting to see the differences between comcast’s strategy and time warner’s strategy
For example:
Cable. Time Warner spun out Time Warner Cable....
I just want to mak a quick post via the iPhone Tumble app.
July 2009
3 posts
3 tags
4 tags
WatchBook: Free - by Chris Anderson
