February 2012
4 posts
“I’m an easy target; if someone wants to get a point across — just...”
– Miami Heat’s LeBron James won’t apologize to Kendrick Perkins, tired of blame game - ESPN
LBJ you are an easy target because you pulled a very public move to make yourself King Douchebag in the eyes of sports fans. And unlike Kobe and Jordan who internalized the criticism and got...
If you met me for AngelList advice
caterpillarcowboy:
Here’s what I’ll tell you:
- AL is for finishing your round. Don’t bother until you have 25-50% of your raise already committed. Since you shouldn’t raise less than $500k*, $200k should be minimum. Except in rare cases, you should also be launched with meaningful # of users or customers. My rule of thumb is 1000 users or 100 customers but that can vary.
- AL is an exercise...
“Sales > R&D. It is somewhat surprising that sales expense is greater than...”
– Why Facebook Clearly Belongs in the 10X Revenue Club « abovethecrowd.com by Bill Gurley
The comment on how Facebook’s ad business isn’t really that self serve is very interesting to me.
So, are you going after 'Lean Startup' now?
rafer:
I gave a talk last evening at the JFDI Bootcamp in which I pushed on how people were applying the Lean Startup ethos. Because I’m a known PITA, a couple people asked me if I was attacking the ethos itself. I’m not. Blank’s work (and by extension Ries’s) are great, should be followed at the beginning of most Internet ventures, will save lots of founders years of grief, etc. I’m all in.
...
January 2012
20 posts
“Note to [Larry] Page: When you make Apple look like the easy and reasonable...”
– Page Rage Escalates As Google Cancels Twitter Android Meeting | PandoDaily
“The speaker for the last 10 years has been an influence peddler in Washington,”...”
– Freddie Hired Gingrich for Business Goals - Bloomberg (via tedr)
“Most interesting to me, Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect of Google says:
...”
– Google Failed Because of Real Names « Emergent Chaos
OMG an untested idea turns out to be false? That never happens! Ever! <sarcasm off>
Moral of the story? Always assume your hypothesis are hypothesis and more often then not will be wrong in the face of real world testing.
“Mr. Gotlieb’s apparent belief that he and other advertising agency leaders can...”
– Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents | Disruption: David Pakman’s Blog
Tumblr: 15B pageviews per month by 120M people →
caterpillarcowboy:
125 pageviews per person per month, or 4 page views a day. That’s actually less than I would have thought. I probably contribute 30-50 pageviews a day, just refreshing the dashboard or loading the next page. How many times a day do you refresh?
Huh? Tumblr which runs the Quantcast tag shows ~50 page views per person per day. And it shows 100M people a month who do 150...
“But the message Dodd most seemed to want to get across was that “the white noise...”
– Sundance 2012: MPAA’s Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a ‘Watershed Event’ - Hollywood Reporter
Rafer sez: If you start the negotiation at a reasonable place, it may well end at a reasonable place. If you start by proposing to end Free Speech as we know it, you are asking for an out of control...
“Less than 2% of the beginners and 9% of the experienced snowboarders wore...”
– The Research Report: A New Weapon in the Fight Against Superbugs - WSJ.com
The key point - the supposed safety equipment doesn’t actually make you more safe. Kinda sounds like the TSA.
“Why don’t Americans trust their government? It’s not because they dislike...”
– Where Are the Liberals? - NYTimes.com
This captures my politics in many ways. Call it the fight against rent-seekers. I call it the fight against cronyism. It’s a fight against those seeking to rig the system in their favor against the merits of ideas, work and fairness.
And these ideas...
“Since rejoining the Company in 1997, Mr. Jobs had not sold any of his shares of...”
– Apple’s 2012 Proxy Statement
In a world where the likes of Steve Ballmer and many others routinely sell huge portions of their shares, Jobs kept all of his. $2,319,515,000 worth, as Dustin Curtis points out.
That’s dedication and loyalty. That’s putting your money where your mouth is. (via...
“Drumming is a physical release for me. When I was a kid I’d have fights with my...”
– Bill Kreutzmann, adult vandal in 1972 (via fuckyesgratefuldead)
this is an interesting quote. A few weeks ago we had an argument with our 9 year old over something inane, and it ended with him going over to practice his guitar and pounding the crap out of it
(via newspeedwayboogie)
Andy - what...
“Yahoo has become the Sick Man of the Internet, akin to the Ottoman Empire’s role...”
– Digiday - Yahoo’s Choice: Double Down on Data
“But he finds the stagnation at the bottom alarming and warns that it will...”
– Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs - NYTimes.com
Not the twitter- or bloggesphere will notice this - but these studies are essentially limited to people born before 1970. So it is effectively a study on the policies of the past NOT the present. This could be a huge indictment of the...
“A Colorado woman dropped her pants at a museum and rubbed her rear end all over...”
– Woman Scratches, Rubs Butt Over $30M Painting | NBC Los Angeles
Police believe she was drunk? Really, couldn’t have guessed that one. ;)
Bring Back Boring Banks - NYTimes.com →
Yep.
December 2011
16 posts
“Mr Bilton notes that after speaking to the FAA, American Airlines, Boeing and...”
– Avionics: Mythology at 10,000 metres | The Economist
“To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a...”
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
“Gingrich sees the world as a battleground — more than any other man alive, he is...”
– Imagining a Gingrich Presidency - Mickey Edwards - Politics - The Atlantic (via wiesen)
Jon Stewart’s take down vignette of Gingrich from the 12/15 show was priceless because well he used a montage of republican’s take down’s of Newt to do it - to quote Glenn Beck...
“When asked if that boycott extended to investors in those companies, Graham...”
– Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day | TechCrunch
“This is very depressing. Europe is probably already in a recession, and the ECB...”
– Calculated Risk: ECB Warns on Risks
“Watching the current testimony about SOPA terrifies me. The thought of Congress...”
– Recap of 2011 Predictions | Zach Coelius@Triggit
“The only thing that stops LeBron better than DeShawn Stevenson is the fourth...”
– Bill Simmons figures out what some teams can still do to get better - Grantland
The Kinky Blogger Who Gets ‘Maintenance Spankings’ →
caterpillarcowboy:
section9:
womaninterrupted:
This is not about me, but still a fun read.
I’m 95% certain this is the roommate’s ex.
Jesus. I did not need to see this. Yeah, it’s her. Ugh.
@davelifson better she’s blogging about someone else then you #silverliningineverything
“This raises the question of what exactly changed in the 1980s. Daeho Kim, a...”
– Op-Ed: Health care gone wild - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
“Close the equity gap, and hiring will get a lot easier.”
– Why You Can’t Hire « Startup Boy (via gregcohn)
Great post. It is another thing that I really admired how @rafer and @dcancel treated us late “founders” at Lookery.
CDC: Castrating Lambs With Your Teeth May Make You... →
Really? You don’t say? #WTF?
“Does Going Public Affect Innovation? JOB MARKET PAPER.
Abstract: This paper...”
– Shai Bernstein, Harvard Economics
“The government report further concludes that even in the current situation where...”
– Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal | TorrentFreak
November 2011
22 posts
“Asked how they would prefer to pay for transportation, most survey respondents...”
– Survey: WA Residents Support Transit, Transportation Investments | PubliCola
Ahh American politics at its core - folks want all the benefits and none of the costs. Typical.
“In my own opinion, if you want to encourage innovation, I wouldn’t focus on...”
– Wealth, Innovation and “Job Creation” | Economics | The American Scene
Writing rules in your favor is at the heart of Crony Capitalism.
“Bankers are aggressively pursuing the company, but Facebook remains elusive...”
– Facebook To Bankers: Hands Off Our $10 Billion IPO - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
“If I were “the eurozone” I would really, really, really want to have something...”
– Sentences to ponder — Marginal Revolution
“Mr. Dorr reluctantly agreed. “There have never been any reported accidents from...”
– Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com
“The most unacceptable consequence of the crisis, across the globe, is that those...”
– How Iceland survived the fire | Martin Wolf’s Exchange | Economic commentary from the Financial Times – FT.com
“It is even more important, however, to ensure that the credit of the sovereign...”
– How Iceland survived the fire | Martin Wolf’s Exchange | Economic commentary from the Financial Times – FT.com
“Devi Shetty has been called the Henry Ford of Heart Surgery. Through mass...”
– Frugal Innovation in Healthcare
“That is, “The Great Stagnation” and “Race Against the...”
– TGS and RATM, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Interesting take on how protectionist traits in certain jobs sectors hold us back economically.
“It’s a similar story at Cheezburger Network, home of funny cat photo site...”
– Digiday - What If Brands Never Learn to Love Web Banners?