August 2008
56 posts
WatchDoes this mean I only have to pay rent for half of August? Better check the lease..
patrickcassels:
The Large Hadron Collider, history’s biggest particle accelerator, will be switched on in 7 days. This means great leaps and bounds in the realms of physics and understanding the way our universe operates. It may, however, also mean the end of the world as we know it: Apparently — and really,...
July 2008
70 posts
“Innovating is hard: The truth is that most everything that can be one in the...”
– Jeremy Wright, CEO of b5 Media, on 10 Reasons Managing Bloggers (and Blog Ads) Is Harder Than Your Grandma’s Corns
WatchTony B. give News Groper a shout out in his rap. I’m thinking startups are a lot like rappers when it comes to East Coast-West Coast rivalry.
meghanasha:
Tony Bacigalupo was a SUPERSTAR at Ignite NYC last night. He created the funniest hardcore NYC Geek Startup Rap Song, check out the lyrics (below), along with the video:
Well, my name is TonyI’m building New Work CityIt’s a coworking...
“I had no business running my own company at 24, but I did it for 8 years and...”
– Richard Wolpert
Mixergy interview with me →
Andrew Warner did a nice podcast interview with me about podcast interviewing other people. I liked the one line message he drew from it: “Everyone is accessible.” Amen.
“Everybody makes their own choices. When we got the news that the cancer had...”
– Randy Pausch
“Let’s be serious: early investing is when crazy-ass angels like me take a flyer...”
– Dave McClure
“[Charles Mingus] could be as gentle as a baby, and he could also be so full of...”
– Gunther Schuller in the must-listen NPR Mingus’ Magnum Opus: ‘Epitaph’ In Concert
“It’s like you are at a good party and the guy you’re talking to is...”
– Paul Mercury describing Venture Voice on iTunes
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“Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
– Langston Coleman (via enquotations)
“Phish fans are the worst. You know the type. You may have worked with one, or be...”
– John Mayer (via newsgroper)
“There were at least two times I remember when my bank had zero balance.”
– Rafat Ali of paidContent on Venture Voice
“Bruce Wayne is a pimp and a true capitalist. He is a Billionaire industrialist...”
– Jeremy Schoemaker
“Christian Bale’s arrest catapults me to 3rd best Batman.”
– Val Kilmer (via newsgroper)
“This is why I know it’s still early in the development of the internet,...”
– Jeff Bezos, on Charlie Rose (via petervidani)
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"strategy is what’s strategic"
Did I really just read a lengthy post in Harvard Business Publishing with the conclusion: “strategy is what’s strategic”? Suggesting that the economy isn’t primarily in trouble because of massive government subsidization of subprime debt or a Treasury Department willingness to bailout failed private lending enterprises, but because companies forgot how to act strategically? Maybe...
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them...”
– Steve Jobs (via enquotations)
Richard Wolpert's Waverunner Adventure
Richard Wolpert is one of my favorite entrepreneur friends in LA. But you’d never know the whole other side of him unless you read his blog.
siminoff:
A new friend in LA Richard Wolpert, who is an entrepreneur and venture advisor for Accel partners, just completed a solo long distance trip on his wave runner off the coast of Southern California, he did over 450 miles on the trip.
The...
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte (via enquotations)
“Once you settle into a routine it breeds complacency.”
– Fabrice Grinda
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a...”
– William Strunk Jr.
“The main value of your initial idea is that, in the process of discovering it’s...”
– Paul Graham (via jonathan-deamer)
“What I want to know is, where does the title ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ come into...”
– David Hasselhoff (via newsgroper)
“The history of most startup’s is made up of iterations, learning and restarts —...”
– John Borthwick
“You know, you’re allowed to laugh at him.”
– Jon Stewart talking to his audience about Barack Obama
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If...”
– President Ronald Reagan (via shaunbwilson)
“I performed at a bar mitzvah. And I’m telling you, man, these little...”
– Snoop Dogg (via thisrecording,blakeley, mikehudack)
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human...”
– Mitch Radcliffe (via simko)
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred...”
– R. D. Laing
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
– Malachy McCourt (via claytoncubitt)
“Hurry up and fail.”
– Jim Moskun (successful entrepreneur & former employer). Whatever you are doing, you won’t get it right the first time. Get over it, get it out, get past it, and get better. (via aaronwhite, littlesister, mikehudack)
“Newspapers will run a headline: ‘Shark kills human.’ You never see a headline...”
– Gary Larson (via affremblequotes)
“For the record, neither I nor anyone else on CFO’s staff wrote this phony...”
– Tim Reason in CFO.com
