November 2010
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Now don’t get me wrong, limit poker can be a lot of fun— if you haven’t got the...
– Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston on poker for real men in 50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do. Slim won the World Series of Poker in 1972, appeared on The Tonight Show eleven times, and is considered one of the greatest poker players to ever live. Among his most famous bets, Slim...
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Employee Equity - How Much? Details and...
Fred Wilson wrote a great post today for his MBA Mondays series regarding Employee Equity. It gives some concrete advice to founders on the science of solving the question of “how much?” By treating the allocation as an equation, it adds discipline and removes emotion. However helpful this may be, it doesn’t really address the concerns from the other side of the table for the...
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Tumblr Dives Into a Boatload of Money →
joelaz:
“Tumblr, the lightweight blogging company, has raised between $25 million and $30 million in new VC funding, Fortune has learned. The valuation is in the ballpark of $135 million.”
Congrats, Tumblr!
gbattle sez:
Congratulations David, John, and even Topherchris and Marco.
Let’s keep this party going!
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If you’re making a product people love, you can make a lot of mistakes.
– The best quote from Mark Zuckerberg’s talk at Web 2.0 Summit. If you combine this with his second best quote regarding FB’s current core principles of “move fast, move bold” you have the makings of why Facebook is what it is today: purposefully fumbling toward greatness.
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The Internet is creating markets that enable us to own much less. The winner of...
– Wired, Abandon Ownership! Join the Rentership Society! (via christmasgorilla)
gbattle sez:
The corollary to this thought however is not hoping for a Netflix-like service for all that we consume. Rather, we should be making efficient marketplaces for those who own assets to allow them to be...
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Jimmy McMillan, The Movie.
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