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Affordable skyscrapers?
Apparently the critics hate rich skyscrapers. Were there every any affordable ones? From The New York Times Seeing a Need for Oversight of New York’s Lordly Towers The rise of skyscrapers that dwarf their neighbors, sometimes elegantly but too often
Affordable skyscrapers?
Apparently the critics hate rich skyscrapers. Were there every any affordable ones? From The New York Times Seeing a Need for Oversight of New York’s Lordly Towers The rise of skyscrapers that dwarf their neighbors, sometimes elegantly but too often
On Odesk/Elance
The two top freelance websites are combining. Some reactions from a guy who has used them heavily — maybe $20k spent there this year — me. venturebeat.com/2013/12/22/how-elances-merger-with-odesk-will-impact-the-freelance-space 1. Neither is very big. 30mm net revenue each. Total billings each around
On Odesk/Elance
The two top freelance websites are combining. Some reactions from a guy who has used them heavily — maybe $20k spent there this year — me. venturebeat.com/2013/12/22/how-elances-merger-with-odesk-will-impact-the-freelance-space 1. Neither is very big. 30mm net revenue each. Total billings each around
Tracking everything
Google Analytics is insanely complicated now. I just went back to it after a few years away from the product, and perhaps it is justified, but this thing is insane. I cannot understand it anymore. In the early days “a
Tracking everything
Google Analytics is insanely complicated now. I just went back to it after a few years away from the product, and perhaps it is justified, but this thing is insane. I cannot understand it anymore. In the early days “a
Brief reviews of “smarter” email apps: Streak vs. RelateIQ
Streak: boy are they working hard on the onboarding process, but fundamentally the design/UI is confusing though the product is helpful RelateIQ: holy fucking shit this is awesome.
Brief reviews of “smarter” email apps: Streak vs. RelateIQ
Streak: boy are they working hard on the onboarding process, but fundamentally the design/UI is confusing though the product is helpful RelateIQ: holy fucking shit this is awesome.
If ideas are cheap, then making them is the thing
Experienced startup people value ideas hardly at all. What have you made? That is the question. Still most ideas aren’t so creative. Here are some good ideas: Drucker’s book about entrepreneurship is good. And www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/04/a-technique-for-producing-ideas-young And Maria Popova has this
If ideas are cheap, then making them is the thing
Experienced startup people value ideas hardly at all. What have you made? That is the question. Still most ideas aren’t so creative. Here are some good ideas: Drucker’s book about entrepreneurship is good. And www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/04/a-technique-for-producing-ideas-young And Maria Popova has this
Fix a problem, make another
Innovation can annoy people. Witness the Yahoo Mail hubbub. (I am a fan of the change.) Another example is how Gmail hides signatures. Gee thanks! Except every time someone asks me for my phone number when it is RIGHT THERE
Fix a problem, make another
Innovation can annoy people. Witness the Yahoo Mail hubbub. (I am a fan of the change.) Another example is how Gmail hides signatures. Gee thanks! Except every time someone asks me for my phone number when it is RIGHT THERE
Transparency is our religion
Being open is a trend. From the psycho head of the world’s largest hedge fund –> Ray Dalio’s Principles To the fine Bloomberg Beta venture fund’s operating principles Of course including all the VC “unbundling” blogs like Hornik and Fred
Transparency is our religion
Being open is a trend. From the psycho head of the world’s largest hedge fund –> Ray Dalio’s Principles To the fine Bloomberg Beta venture fund’s operating principles Of course including all the VC “unbundling” blogs like Hornik and Fred
Take knote
Season’s greetings! I’ve been hard at work all year and I want to share the results with you. Take **knote**. We have started showing some people our creation, **Knotable**. It’s our new tool for thinking together. A platform where you
Take knote
Season’s greetings! I’ve been hard at work all year and I want to share the results with you. Take **knote**. We have started showing some people our creation, **Knotable**. It’s our new tool for thinking together. A platform where you
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