February 2012
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Mike Damone's Five Point Plan for Raising Venture...
porchdog:
First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl you’re impressed by an investor. “Oh, Debbie @fredwilson. Hi.”
Two, you always call the shots. “Kiss Invest in me. You won’t regret it.”
Now three, act like wherever you are whatever space you’re in, that’s the place to be. “Isn’t this great?”
Four, when ordering food pitching, you find out what she your investor wants,...
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How Tumblr Should Do Promoted Posts
caterpillarcowboy:
Thoughts expressed in this post are derived from conversations with Julie Fredrickson and Greg Battle.
As you all have seen, Tumblr recently began playing with the idea of publishers paying $1 to highlight posts in the stream. As I said then, I’m glad Tumblr is experimenting, and every time a community-based site makes changes, it always runs the risk of backlash, so kudos to...
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“Twitter is reporting some new benchmarks that were set during the Super Bowl,...”
– Via the Cynopsis Sports Newsletter.
The amazing fact here isn’t the insane number of tweets generated during the end of the Super Bowl or during Madonna’s halftime show, but that they both were beat by an anime movie you probably have never heard of in a language you probably cannot...
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Letter From Alexander Graham Bell : 1915
American Telephone & Telegraph Company was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.
We think it’s important that everyone who invests in AT&T understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do. I will try to outline our approach in this letter.
At AT&T,...
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What turntable almost looked like
turntable-fm:
We were perusing some old files and this was what the first designed version of turntable looked like. It’s funny looking back at it and feels like something out of TRON. Ultimately it didn’t fit in with the feel we wanted to give (making turntable feel like a small trendy, but homey venue).
gbattle sez:
This is hot, if only for the option of using it. I wish Turntable.fm...
January 2012
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Did Bob Dole Really Say This To Newt Gingrich?
Newt Gingrich: Why do people take such an instant dislike of me?
Bob Dole: Because it saves them time.
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“Correlation Ventures said it closed an initial $165 million venture capital fund...”
– peHUB » Correlation Ventures Closes $165M Fund That Will Use Predictive Analytics
I don’t get this.
(via jryu)
So these guys contacted me last year and I was completely sketched out. This is as close to “dumb money” as a VC could ever be. They’re a bunch of Wall St quants who think they’ve...
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WatchLian Amber - “Wish You Were Here”. I wish she’d just release an album already. She’s so talented.
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Watch“The beat for “Little Brother” was created by legendary hip hop producer J Dilla. While it was only released on the movie soundtrack for The Hurricane**, it’s Questlove’s favorite Black Star song and he was there when J Dilla made the beat for it.”
** my crew submitted a track for that soundtrack (Curtis Mayfield remake), but we got dinged for a wack track (not...
“Jazz is a lie. America is a lie … Playing Jazz is like running on a treadmill:...”
– Trumpeter Nicholas Payton “On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore”. A brief quote won’t do his piece justice. Few musicians can put together two sentences, let alone an epic manifesto killing the very brand that has carried their career. Bravo.
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The Next Steve Jobs Is: Kanye West →
“Hip-hop star launches design institute stuffed with dope … minds”
Mmm hmm. I know just what you’re thinking.
Slow. News. Day.