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I'm Greg, and this is my little blog. I'm the founder of Sawhorse Media (Listorious + Shorty Awards + Muck Rack + more) and Venture Voice.

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Thu Oct 29
Startups Rise from the Wreckage of New York’s Financial System | Epicenter | Wired.com

I was delighted to share my thoughts on the NYC startup scene with Wired. My message was despite (or because of) the economy, NYC’s getting better for startups.

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Not Sure Which Twitter Lists To Follow? Listorious Has A Directory Of The Best Ones

Our newest site. So meta it makes my head hurt.

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Mon Oct 26
Write an ode to GeoCities in the form of a limerick - ChallengePost

$10 prize!

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Thu Oct 22
I always thought a real customer had a first and last name, not just a smile.

I always thought a real customer had a first and last name, not just a smile.

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Wed Oct 21
“ It’s not a social network. It’s an information network. Ev Williams on Twitter
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Mon Oct 19
“ We’re facing a paperless recovery wherein old-line content companies need to continue to slash in order to stay ahead of what looks to be a broad secular decline. David Carr
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Sun Oct 18
“ One of challenges we face is that we’re moving fast. I was meeting with a company we were thinking about a deal with. Finally the CEO of that company and I realized their team has 12 month roadmap/product cycle; we can’t tell you what our product will look like in six months. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
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Fri Oct 16
“ We’ve brought in some of the better traditions of newspapers. We’re breaking more stories than we ever have. That’s awesome. But there’s no way we’re going to slow our publishing schedule to that of a ponderous newspaper-style organization — where everything has to go through layers of edit and approval and checking and legal. Nick Denton
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Wed Oct 14
“ My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Richard Wiseman (via bijan) (via entrepreneurwisdom)

I was reminded of what EB White meant by stating “No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky” from this excellent study on luck.
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Sun Oct 4
“ The bond between journalists and their sources is always complex—you’re friends with benefits, without being friends Tad Friend
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Tue Sep 29
“ You need to be in the free universe to be searched, to be all the things that cause you to grow and gain stature in the world today. Larry Kramer
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Fri Sep 25
“ At some point, publishers decide that if all clients care about is impressions, then OK, we’ll give them impressions. The output is an industry that overproduces shallow, superficial, commoditized impressions. Shelby Bonnie
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Mon Sep 21
“ Social media draw on three sources of power: Light work of the many. Hard work of the few. Tireless work of the machines. Xerox PARC
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Fri Sep 18
“ We have had a lot of experience in bailing out various companies and institutions. We must confront the question: Who is going to bail out America? Peter G. Peterson
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Mon Sep 14
“ It is not so much a moneymaker for us as a public service to get guys laid. Penn Jillette when asked at TechCrunch50 about his iPhone App’s revenue model (via caro)
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