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October 25th, 2013 7:03pm

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October 23rd, 2013 5:53pm

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"Most interestingly, new company wealth (pure play Internet companies) far exceeds “transitioned wealth” (incumbent companies transitioning their model successfully to the new platform)."

Does the same phenomenon happen during following paradigm shifts? To mobile? Heath? Currency?

October 23rd, 2013 5:31pm

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If you choose not to decide, you have still made a choice. —

October 23rd, 2013 1:16am

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October 21st, 2013 12:46am

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An idea is not a design

A design is not a prototype

A prototype is not a program

A program is not a product

A product is not a business

A business is not profits —

October 17th, 2013 1:19pm

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Here are the principles of Acceptable Ads, as debated in a public forum and defined by our open community:

Acceptable Ads are not annoying.

Acceptable Ads do not disrupt or distort page content.

Acceptable Ads are transparent with us about being an ad.

Acceptable Ads are effective without shouting at us.

Acceptable Ads are appropriate to the site or tweet that we are on.

— https://adblockplus.org/blog/an-open-letter-to-twitter

October 15th, 2013 12:30pm

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When Leo Tolstoy's great-great-granddaughter, the journalist Fyokla Tolstaya, announced that the Leo Tolstoy State Museum was looking for volunteers to proofread some forty-six thousand eight hundred pages of her relative's writings, she hoped to generate enough interest to get the first round of corrections done in six months. Within days, some three thousand Russians—engineers, I.T. workers, schoolteachers, retirees, a student pilot, a twenty-year-old waitress—signed on. "We were so happy and so surprised," said Tolstaya. "They finished in fourteen days." — that's the move

Crowdsourcing Tolstoy : The New Yorker

(via fred-wilson)

October 7th, 2013 3:33pm

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As a founder, your main job is to ask, “How can we grow faster?” And do everything possible to make it happen. —

October 6th, 2013 10:57am

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Solid explanation.

October 5th, 2013 10:17pm

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Creative people are ones who are willing and able to metaphorically buy low and sell high in the realm of ideas. Buying low means pursuing ideas that are unknown or out of favor, but that have growth potential. Often, when these ideas are first presented, they encounter resistance. The creative individual persists in the face of this resistance, and eventually sells high, moving on to the next new, or unpopular, idea. In other words, such an individual acquires the creativity habit.

— http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jlnietfe/Creativity_&_Critical_Thinking_Articles_files/Sternberg%20(2012).pdf (via cdixon)

September 24th, 2013 1:42pm

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Ask people who run internet companies and they'll tell you that user behavior on tablets is far more similar to user behavior on desktops/laptops than it is to user behavior on smartphones. — http://cdixon.org/2013/06/01/some-thoughts-on-mobile/

September 6th, 2013 10:40pm

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Revolutions destroy the perfect, which in turn enables the once impossible. —

September 6th, 2013 10:21pm

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This is the first generation of people that work, play, think and learn differently than their parents. They are the first generation to not be afraid of technology. It’s like the air to them. — Don Tapscott