August 2012
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April 2012
4 posts
The Atlantic: The Perspiration Theory →
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Dixon Galvez-Searle writes:
How do I come up with ideas? I work on them. Let me be clear; the germ of an idea can hit at any time: in the shower, at the park, even (gasp!) at work. But the germ of an idea is not worth sharing. Only a fully fleshed out, rigorously developed idea is worth…
Same with startup ideas. Build on them, flesh them out. Carry a notebook.
fragmentation of talent
One of the perverse things about a bubble in Silicon Valley is, it tends to fragment talent across too many companies, so you get sort of a suboptimal number of successful companies. If everybody starts their own companies you don’t wind up with a density of talent at one place, which is what really is required to build an amazing company, whether it’s PayPal or Apple back in the day, or Yammer or Square today.
- Keith Rabois (http://www.businessinsider.com/keith-rabois-qa-with-the-square-coo-and-angel-investor-2012-4?op=1)
This is exactly how I felt at Stanford with student groups, and now that I’ve graduated the valley is the same exact thing.
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.’”
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Susan Sontag, quoted by Brendan Berg. She’s right, precisely and exactly.
It’s not the first element of her argument that’s arresting; any idiot knows that intelligence is overrated in all sorts of ways. But the insight that when we are real and human with each other we produce ‘intelligence’ —as an outcome, not as an attribute— is profound, true, and an explanation I’d never encountered for why I prefer the company of the real and dull to erudite performers distracted by their own brilliance. It is not merely a question of taste: the former converse collaboratively, build meanings with you, surprise you; the latter are not so open to discovery because the dialectic process is for them both a pleasure and a competition, and their intelligence is too precious to them to be risked on banal inquiries, dumb guesses, the fatal utterance “I don’t know.”
(via mills)
January 2012
2 posts
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Crowdbooster rage
#7 - Crowdbooster
Made by a “big fan.” I think I know who that is. Check out other startup ideas on StartupRage. I love it!
December 2011
1 post
“There’s no truth, only perspectives”
—Ricky Yean (via richardjlo)
September 2011
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August 2011
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June 2011
3 posts
Ben Lang: Day 10 - Silicon Valley →
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Awesome! Make a different Ben!
Today I fell in love. With Silicon Valley.
It’s hard to describe in words my fascination and admiration of this area. The buzz that you feel in the air. The excitement going through everyone. The passion bursting in people. The dream that everyone has. I truly felt it today.
Started the day with…
May 2011
6 posts
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3 simple steps
1). Build inspiring products.
2). Tell a great story.
3). Find your storytellers.
“Feedback and support is how customers talk to us. Product is how we talk to them.”
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