Half-Baked Thoughts for Articles, Kept On Twitter
- I'm at Borders (200 King St, at 3rd St, San Francisco). http://4sq.com/2kLuKw
- Michael Cera Playboy Interview - August 2010 Playboy 20Q - Interview with Michael Cera: http://bit.ly/8Xn090
- RT @TechCrunch YC-Funded Optimizely Makes It Remarkably Easy To Run A/B Tests On Your Website http://tcrn.ch/9Vg7O2
- Looking for great eng. w/ experience in the FB app world, and uses one of these regularly: PHP, MySQL, or Flash. Angel-funded, SF startup!
- Welcome to the Lost Decade for Entrepreneurs (IPOs way down!) http://bit.ly/9n1bF3 via @sgblank
- http://www.playboy.com/articles/bill-gates-playboy-interview/index.html playboy interview of bill gates in 1994. Good read!
- Eagle has landed! (iPhone 4 is in my hands)
- So many good videos -- particularly the Steve Jobs ones: http://video.allthingsd.com/
- "I don't feel that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out" -- Colonel Harland Sanders on retiring. Agreed!
- Cool! Starbucks Store – 50% off Frappuccinos from 3pm-5pm every day until 5/16/2010 http://bit.ly/by398w via #riveti
- Eric Schmidt looks back at Google's IPO (it wasn't a smooth ride!) Great read! http://bit.ly/bo39zz via @mherman2
- RT @TechCrunch When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt) http://tcrn.ch/9iYJT8
- Amazing video, must see for tech entrepreneurs. Steve Blank: Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups -- http://bit.ly/b7a85a
- Hmm. Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1893946,00.html
- Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies invested in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, beating out silicon valley investors http://nyti.ms/btm4XZ
- Cool! Gives You Hell (Glee Cast Version) - Number 97 most popular song on iTunes http://bit.ly/cF89NJ via #riveti
- The money made by Microsoft, Apple and Google, 1985 until today http://bit.ly/bB7wa1 ... Great article and graphs!
- iPad is Beautiful. Everyone will want one!
- Eric Schmidt vs. Steve Jobs =( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/technology/14brawl.html?pagewanted=1
- Happy birthday Steve.
- RT @mashable Why We're In the Age of the Citizen Philanthropist http://bit.ly/aWgClF
- Bill Gates' Notes - "I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own thoughts on the subject with others" http://bit.ly/5NXxr8
- Donate to Citizen Effect's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: http://bit.ly/7qe4hn
- Thoroughly enjoying Glee Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2. http://bit.ly/8QMckM
- Ten Rules for Web Startups by Twitter Founder - http://bit.ly/5mQl7f
- Steve Jobs' resume http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html
- Ten Best- and Worst-Performing Stocks of 2009 via Yahoo Finance http://bit.ly/5gbQ9v
- 10 "Mungerisms - Charlie Munger on How to Become Rich http://bit.ly/6zW0W0
- RT @Wired James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever | Magazine http://bit.ly/8Az6Ll
- SF - The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. http://bit.ly/52j9AC from the S.F. Weekly
- SF friends - I'd love to see you at the Citizen Effect Launch Party, Thursday 12/3. Be sure to RSVP, space is limited http://bit.ly/4GLAoM
- CNBC Video: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates - Keeping American Great http://www.cnbc.com/id/33940689
- Have an impact with real people around the world this season: Citizen Effect - http://bit.ly/19rGiN
- RT @socialearth Redefining Philanthropy: Introducing The Citizen Effect | SocialEarth http://bit.ly/3QojuT
- Career Paths of Retail CEOs http://retailindustry.about.com/od/retailjobscareers/a/ceocareerpath.htm ... lots of Stanford grads
- SF Chocolate festival on sat anyone? http://bit.ly/3wL0LR
- Paul Graham's Anatomy of Determination - good entrepreneurship article! http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
- http://twitpic.com/f4yzg - Seen in Brentwood, CA
- Congratulations @Rick_Bayless . Must fly out to Chicago!
- Starcraft 2 pushed out until 2010 http://bit.ly/5L8Ae - productivity continues for at least another 6 months.
- Found out my next-door neighbor and classmate in highschool co-founded http://playdom.com - which is kicking ass! Great job Dan!!
- Drool. http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com/gallery/index
- Foodie? You'll love this show on Hulu http://bit.ly/YdldV
- Warren Buffet's cartoon for kids. AWESOME. http://bit.ly/Pceyo It goes a bit fast over some important concepts, but a great start!
- "Present like Steve Jobs". Not the best meta-presentation (video), but not bad... http://bit.ly/XqrO6
- Holy crap. Jason Bateman acting when he was a kid-same smile! http://bit.ly/1iMU7s
- Dreamt that I was riding around with Warren Buffett in a public bus, asking him questions for a full hour. Take that, $1.68M lunch!
- http://bit.ly/zZtfQ Pretty funny series with Tony Hale (Buster Bluth). Funny!
- Really interesting social entrepreneurship project: small project donations (1Well). See http://bit.ly/j75JO
- Micro Turn MMOs FTW!
- Not as young as I used to be, but still fun to hang around Reddit, GitHub, and CarrotSticks founders @ Brickhouse & Rickenbacker's
- Thanks @anxman for lunch at Facebook. Could Facebook's HQ be anymore Google 2.0?? Only difference was the bullpen style seating!
- @playspymaster I want an invite!
- rubyonrailscontractors.com - got our first RFP for "contractor shall supply rail that meets the 'Specification for Steel Rails'". Funny!
- ddos's are so fun...
- I'd love your feedback! An addictive, real time twitter topic viewer! http://www.riveti.com/ :)
- VIDEO: How Obama used data to win the election http://is.gd/z0ll - a video of a great talk by Dan Siroker, analytics lead of Obama Campaign!
- Just pon farr'ed in his pants
- Buffet And Gates - a series of fascinating videos http://tinyurl.com/c99luu
- so many good ken burns documentaries on netflix "watch instantly", but only until May 1 to watch them!!
- Oct is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are Jul, Jan, Sept, Apr, Nov, May, Mar, Jun, Dec, Aug & Feb
- The secret source of humor is not joy, but sorrow; there is no laughter in heaven. - MarkTwain
- *I* don't even care what I'm doing right now.
- Good advice from some VCs http://tinyurl.com/dajtca
- Good advice from Reid Hoff http://tinyurl.com/cgueto
- creating an objective pay scale with joel http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-employees-negotiate-pay-raises.html
- what, oh what, is the perfect financial structure for business(es) of a guy like me?
- The world is flat @ MIT http://tinyurl.com/c3qpku
- another way to think: what does your business *need* to succeed, that it's missing right now? Forget your own agenda, focus on what's needed
- it turns out I figured out my passions in middle school classes (programming, acting, industrial eng). When did you figure out yours?
- Learn learn learn. http://tinyurl.com/d6wwym
- remember, you don't have to make it back the same way you lost it!
- pg says entreprenuer='relentlessly resourceful' relentless=passionate&commited. 'Resourceful' core, too? Necessary but not sufficient? Hmm
- How to find what someone's passionate about? Ask what news they read? What their perfect day would be? What they could do day in and out?
- Problem? Always find the root cause? http://tinyurl.com/aes6l9
- Hang With People Better Than You http://tinyurl.com/auayvw
- How to be an angel investor - http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html
- perhaps obvious to most, but worthwhile as a reminder http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
- http://tinyurl.com/db48v9
- http://tinyurl.com/wp7wo
- if you you could turn that quarter into $250 would you be more frugal?
- Sales=making people feel good about what they bought
- IF: everyone thinks it’s a great idea-probably sucks; ppl understand it-you’re too late; ppl don’t like it & don’t understand it-prob. sucks
- Are you going for the lowest hanging fruit first? Save the hard work for when you have gobs of money.
- Your first market should be well connected.
- Warning: we're a *nix-only firm. As a developer, you can use Windows at your own risk. We're not wasting any time/money on your shortcomings
- If there were only 1 thing you could get done today, what would it be? Do it first, (e.g. from 9am-11am).
- Where [regular] attention goes, energy flows and results show.
- what you plan, you understand
- What systems and roles have you documented at your business?
- Eisenhower said: "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." (thanks CR!)
- Do you *know* how much money per month to spend on fun? Have left to spend on fun this month? If not, you aren't in control of your money.
- Napoleon said that no battles ever go according to plan. So why did he plan battles more meticulously than anyone else?
- How do you build an organization where EVERYONE is paid mostly by performance?
m3moore