All VC activity has NOT stopped (7)
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Robert Scoble (868)
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A word of hope to entrepreneurs: I just learned of another Web company that just got funded and will announce such on Tuesday. So, even after the worst week in the stock market in history and a pretty darn tough economy coming toward us, entrepreneurs are still getting funded. Some things, though. The company getting funded has pretty sizeable adoption curves (millions of customers) and is in a hot market space and has a good ...
Stop Trying to Impress Other People (1)
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Imagine, just for a moment, that you find yourself on a desert island with just you and four or five of your closest friends and relatives - the people you care about the most in this world. The only people around are the people that care about you. On this island, you can have whatever house you want and the items you want to have. But you’re just on this island with just the people ...
During Tough Times, The Echo Chamber Can Be Your Best Friend (37)
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We are witnessing either an epic financial meltdown or a long overdue resetting of existing business practices and the hollow markets they create. Or, perhaps we’re experiencing both of these phenomena. Either way, it has the nation gripped with fear, uncertainty, and an unsettling eruption of questionable advice confusing everyone, everywhere. While the floor is crumbling for many industries much in the same way it did for Silicon Valley during the dotbomb years, the sky ...
Google launches its own satellite (1)
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Wheat vs. Chaff (1)
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Christopher Buckley in Sorry, Dad, I’m voting for Obama: …I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times—I’m beginning to sound like Paul Krugman, who cannot begin a column without saying, “As I warned the world in my last column…”—a highly favorable Op-Ed about McCain, taking Rush Limbaugh and the others in the Right Wing Sanhedrin to task for ...
AP's blog is down...for good (1)
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After the blogger's picnic it was nearly 10 days of silence from AP. Not that we talked often, but the daily email snarks disappeared. I knew something was up and he wasn't taking calls or answering email. Very late Weds and again late Thursday AP called me. I can't divulge much other than the blog is down as it doesn't fit where his head is at now and how he wants to reinvent himself. He's ...
Why Is There A Watermelon There? (1)
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Scott Aaronson over at Shtetl-Optimized describes a project for the summer of 2009 that I find very interesting. The web app — tentatively called “Worldview Manager” — is intended to help people ferret out hidden contradictions in their worldviews. Think of a kindly, patient teacher in a philosophy seminar who never directly accuses students of irrationality, but instead uses Socratic questioning to help them clarify their own beliefs. The problem of hidden contradictions in people’s ...
Embed a Part of a YouTube Video (50)
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If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Here's how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/abcdefghijk&hl=en&fs=1&start=15"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" ...
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Rolf said:
This will be a great tool for bloggers. You can get straight to the part you want without having to listen to a whole clip. Big time saver.
Mini blorpitude (3)
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One day, Son, the entire ocean WILL BE YOURS!!! It almost looks like it has a little (star)face doesn't it, Sami S.? :•D
The Intelligent Investor: Introduction (1)
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This is the first in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth “book club” reading of Benjamin Graham’s investing classic The Intelligent Investor. Warren Buffett describes this book: “I read the first edition of this book early in 1950, when I was nineteen. I thought then that it was by far the best book about investing ever written. I still think it is.” I’m reading from the 2003 HarperBusiness Essentials paperback edition. This ...
Transparency in politics can lead to greater corruption (1)
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Why are some countries more prone to political corruption? Viviana Stechina from Uppsala University, Sweden, has investigated why corruption among the political elite was more extensive in Argentina than in Chile during the 1990s. Among other things, her research shows that greater transparency does not necessarily lead to less corruption.
Great Advice From Brad Feld (10)
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“ My recommendation to all of you entrepreneurs out there is to get off the negative sentiment treadmill, step up, and lead. The people working for your company are likely confused, concerned, and overwhelmed with all the noise in the system. In the near term, building your business will likely be more challenging on a number of dimensions. So what - that’s the normal cycle of business. You don’t need to be a blind optimist ...
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Robert Scoble said:
Cool. A storm is moving in and, yes, many houses won't have any damage. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare for the incoming storm, though. One thing I liked about some of my past bosses: the ones who were transparent, even in downturns, got my loyalty. Share, share, share what's happening to the business. Let people see exactly where the business stands.
Watch This Slide Show (18)
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I've always felt that Sequoia was the best venture capital firm in the business and this slide show shows exactly why that is. It's chock full of data and charts and advice. Kudos to the team at Sequoia who put it together. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: downturn finance)
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arsalan said:
Awesome slideshow. If you want some answers about the economy in broad terms, don't miss this.
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blake borgeson said:
excellent
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