July 2009
28 posts
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Startups: 10 Things MBA Schools Won't Teach You →
1. No amount of strategic planning will ever substitute for managing your cash flow. Financial statements are great. The most important one is your bank account statement.
2. There are always more things to do than there is time to do them. Startups are a continuous exercise in deciding what not to do. You can sometimes win by just not doing things faster than your...
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Popping Popcorns with Cellphones →
Circa June 2008, hard-to-believe videos titled “cellphone popcorn” began to surface on YouTube, catching the attention of internet users as well as the mainstream media and tech blogs. The video clips depicted a group of people gathered around a table with their cellphones and when they proceeded to dial their phone numbers, popcorn kernels went off in the air, as if they were affected...
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100 Essential Skills for Geeks →
As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required to be a true geek. I won’t pretend to have all the skills listed here. I even had to Google a few of them.
Like all good Geeks you should be able to utilize resources to accomplish any of these...
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#10Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media →
This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs.
Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading information and awareness...
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100 Incredibly Inspiring Videos →
By Caitlin Smith
To be a good leader, one must by visionary, focused, decisive, ethical and above all, inspired. While great leaders may possess many of these qualities, it doesn’t mean that they don’t need a little inspiration for themselves now and again, as leading others is sometimes a difficult and thankless task. Additionally, there are many out there who haven’t yet realized their true...
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Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And... →
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net, founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere. Box.net is now used by millions of individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide.
There’s now a lot of buzz debating the business model of “Free” with the release of Chris Anderson’s new book. Most of the...
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Resource Superlist For Twitter Folks →
@johnhaydon has assembled an excellent compilation of Twitter resources in response to hundreds of questions he has received on how to use Twitter. You’ll see several categories below, and a free download at the bottom of the page.
Video Tutorials
How to use the Seesmic Twitter application (3 videos)
Video Tutorial: The Seesmic Web-Based Twitter Application
Video Tutorial: Overview Of The Latest...
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How Much Did Michael Jackson Rock the Web? →
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
As news of Michael Jackson’s death began to spread last Thursday, the crush of people flocking to the Web for information overloaded several Web sites and services, causing AOL’s instant messaging service, news sites, Twitter and Wikipedia to buckle under the strain.
But just how much traffic are we talking about? Compete, a Web analytics firm based in Boston, crunched...
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Start-Up 2.0: Fastest Way to Launch a Web Project... →
1) Have Concept – research competition and market using Google search, Twitter Search, etc. Set up Google alerts (google.com/alerts) and Twilerts (twilert.com) to monitor the industry during your start-up.
2) Domain Name – Get a domain name based on what you are calling your project. Use GoDaddy – $10.00/yr. Try to get the “.com” or think of something clever using the newer endings such as...
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The Healthy and Fit Algorithm →
Getting healthy and fit can be a ton of fun.
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Adam Gilbert of MyBodyTutor.com.
Since I’ve quit my job, I’ve helped countless people change their lives for the better via one word: Consistency. And I want to help you too!
My idea for this post was to make a rule based post. Call it the healthy and fit algorithm. In the most general sense, an algorithm...
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How to make $45 Million a year with Doman Names &... →
Have you seen one of those lawn signs plugging a local dating website? A blogger gets obsessed with who is behind them and just how far they stretch. This is a report of his findings, which start in a tiny NJ town and lead all the way to the secret guerilla marketing infrastructure of a multimillion-dollar company…
Over the past two years, I have developed a growing fascination with lawn...
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20 Leadership Lessons to Help You Find Success →
1. There’s more to life than work. Great leaders have deep reserves of physical, spiritual, and emotional energy, and that energy is usually fueled by a strong and supportive relationship with the people they love, regular exercise, a healthy lifestyle, and setting aside time for reflection.
2. Always focus on the mission. To be a great leader, you have to be intensely focused on the core mission...
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The Story of Prisoner F95488 →
Erin Saldana/Daily Nexus Eric Frimpong, seen at his trial in 2008.
This story appears in the July 13 issue of ESPN The Magazine.
It’s March 3, 2008, a brilliant day in Santa Barbara. But for Eric Frimpong, it feels like hell. He’s in Superior Court, encircled by sheriff’s deputies, making one more trip to the Department 2 courtroom. This is his last stop on the outside for a while, a painful...
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anais Nin
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Hey, Online Display Ads Don't Suck After All! →
Since the dawn of time, advertisers have been worried about the efficacy of online display ads. This is in part because, in the mid-1990s, they were taught that online display ads had one purpose in life, which was to get people to click on them.
Of course, nothing could have been farther from the truth. Online search ads are great for clicks, because when people encounter search ads,...
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“We can’t live forever…
And on first thought, it would be nice to.
But what...”
– Dr. Vik
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“The best businesses are those that have figured out how to combine profits,...”
– Tony Hsieh + Angela Trioxin
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10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter →
Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects. So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things like guessing gender based on real names or pulling data from keywords in people’s biographic information. This...
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PayPal Sucks →
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“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never...”
– Win Borden
Will my video get 1 million views on YouTube? - By... →
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Practical Insight For Your Social Marketing... →
In a recent Techcrunch interview of Linkedin’s Reid Hoffman, he made this interesting analogy for social space,
MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.
This is inspiring for marketers who look for a right ingredient to do social...
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Apple Patents Hint at Tactile Feedback,... →
Recent Apple patents hint at new features that could appear in future iPhones. Most interesting is a patent detailing haptic tactile feedback for iPhone — that is, the ability for users to feel the virtual keys they’re pressing on the touchscreen.
The idea of haptic tactile feedback is such: The iPhone’s vibrations would simulate the vibrations felt when typing on a physical keyboard, so when...
Excuses.. →
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.
We all make excuses.
But the successful ones are those who can kill the excuses like the miserable maggots they are.
I’m too tired. I don’t have the time. I don’t feel motivated. I’d rather do nothing. I don’t have the money, equipment, space. I can’t because …
We’ve all made the excuses. Here’s how to kill them.
See the positive. Excuses...
Sonos - Wireless Multi-Room Music System →
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Pure Play iPhone App Startups Attract $100 Million... →
Startups which concentrate on the development of iPhone apps have attracted about $100 million in venture capital in the mere two years that this business has existed, according to data compiled by the Chubbybrain blog.
The leading VC firm in this space is Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, which has put $50 million in six startups. This is about half of the $100 million iPhone development...