May 2012
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20 Cubed
THIS! This is so necessary! I always have a massive headache by the end of the day, though I’m sure this has something to do with switching from glasses to contacts and vice versa throughout the day. Either way, I’m giving this a go!  caitdc: I’m often staring at a computer screen for hours on end, despite continual warnings that our eyes (and brains) need breaks. Enter 20 Cubed:...
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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The Secret Sauce to the Executive Summary: There...
Let me first say, I promised you yesterday I’d blog every Thursday, and here I am! POW! Anyway… As I polish my executive summary, I’ve gotten some mixed advice; some tell me to make mine a whopper (15+ pages), and others suggest I narrow it down to two pages. I don’t think there’s a magic number, and mine is looking to be around 5 or 6 pages, pre-edits. Luckily for...
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 30th
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Taking my time management goals public; please...
I’ve read several times from a variety of sources that announcing your goals to friends, family and now with social media, the world (or those who follow you) improves your likelihood of success in reaching those goals.  As they say, startup founders “wear many hats.” I wish these hats were cool snapbacks or fashionably veiled tiny hats, but they’re not. On any given day,...
May 30th
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Mobile E-Commerce Revenue Continues to Grow, Fab...
betashop: In her talk at the D-Conference today Mary Meeker presented some data showing that mobile now accounts for 8% of e-commerce revenue. That led us to dig in and look at how mobile revenue is developing at Fab. In short, it’s growing. Big. Fab mobile revenue now amounts to 23 to 25% of weekly sales - just 30 weeks since we launched our mobile apps. iOS continues to dominate. 95%...
May 30th
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May 30th
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May 30th
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thatluciegirl) I feel this way every day.  (via parceld)
May 30th
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May 25th
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Sometimes I feel like I don’t know whether I’m digging a hole or building a bridge. 
May 25th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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The Illusion of the Self: An Interview with Bruce... →
There is conscious awareness of the present moment that he called the “I,” but there is also a self that reflects upon who we are in terms of our history, our current activities and our future plans. James called this aspect of the self, “me” which most of us would recognize as our personal identity—who we think we are. However, I think that both the “I” and the “me” are actually ever-changing...
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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Leaving the Nest: Reflections on Leaving an...
 Yesterday, I technically finished and departed from the Tow Knight incubator program, where I spent the last three and a half months shaping and molding my original business idea into something viable and, hopefully, successful. Until very recently, I’d felt as though I ended up in this program, and the startup world in general, by accident; like I stumbled into a room full of people...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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BRYCE DOT VC: Suffering As a Competitive Advantage →
brycedotvc: Starting companies is hard. Building them into sustainable businesses over time is even harder. … Despite the media’s glamorous portrails of celebrity founders, I think the ability to suffer through and tolerate pain after others give up, may be the single most important attribute in all of startupland.
May 21st
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People Reading on Subways (tumblr) →
PEOPLE READ BOOKS, YOU GUYS. heads up via the hairpin
May 21st
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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation... →
May 21st
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The Most Valuable Startup Asset: Your Meta-Tribe →
Innovation is biology, in a very particular way.  When a bee colony is attacked by a predator, that colony has to fend for its own survival.  However, when a startup company is attacked by a large corporate competitor, it can recruit people from anywhere in the world to join that effort.  Human beings have the unique ability, among all creatures, to custom-create our own tribes, in order to...
May 21st
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May 21st
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Fred Wilson's MBA Mondays: Culture & Fit →
when hiring, you must start with what you already have. Take measure of the vibe of the company, the work habits of the company, the strengths and weaknesses of the current team. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle that is only half built. You are looking for the next piece that will fit nicely into what is already there. I’m a quite a while away from hiring like mad, but already, I’m...
May 21st
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MONDAY
Mondays are my Fridays. The way some people feel about freeing themselves of the week on Friday, I feel about beginning it. Sure, weekends are like dessert to a long five days of obligatory vegetables and whole grains, but Mondays are the first bite to a seven-course meal. If you’re hungry, that first bite is delicious. 
May 21st
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May 21st
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“Whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through...”
– Conan O’Brien addressing the graduating class at Dartmouth in 2011, one of 5 ½ timeless commencement speeches. (via explore-blog)
May 18th
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May 17th
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5 Lessons for Using Open Innovation to Maximize... →
“If your aim is not to create something that is vastly superior, nobody will care…This is true enough for your employees, but it certainly is true for a community. Nobody wants to spend time and energy on something that is incrementally better at best. People don’t care about me-too products. They deeply care about people and things that change the world.”
May 16th
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May 16th
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“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”
– William James, The Principles of Psychology (via socialuxd)
May 16th
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The lies we tell ourselves. “I’ve learned more... →
“In the world of entrepreneurship I think the most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is ‘I’ve learned more from my failures than my successes.’ It’s simply not true and I want to talk about why. What I believe IS true is the statement ‘I’ve developed more CHARACTER from my failures than my successes.’ But, I firmly believe we LEARN more from our successes by far. ...
May 15th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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“a person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that...”
– Philip K. Dick as quoted in The 2010/2011 Feltron Biennial Report  (via socialuxd)
May 14th
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May 14th
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“Success doesn’t depend on dumbing down fashion. And selection, not low prices,...”
– How Unhip Amazon Can Walk the Fashion Runway, Bloomberg
May 11th
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“Street smarts is not the Jedi knight’s mind trick. It’s more like R2D2 when he...”
– Minimizing Risk in Entrepreneurship: Pattern Recognition, Iteration via women2.0
May 11th
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May 10th
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“If you can hold it, as one holds liquor, exhaustion is its own kind of drug.”
– Fantastic New York Magazine piece by Kathryn Schulz on writing (and running) in the dark and the circadian curse of being a “night owl.” (via explore-blog)
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
– Voltaire (via psyhco)
May 8th
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