The only thing missing from the blip.tv party is… Mike Hudack?
This was an awesome party. Ran into so many great people. Except Mike Hudack :P
Variations on a Swirl… It is time to bring out the peanut butter! Thanks to Heidi’s Frogen Yozurt, an old yogurt shop in my hometown, I am a peanut butter ice cream fiend. While we’re still working on our peanut butter ‘scream recipe, we’ve got a good thing going with our peanut butter swirl. The question is - what’s the right kind of swirl? A sauce, a strip, a patty, a dollop? Salty, sugary, vanilla-y, cinnamon-y? We have four iterations chillin’ in the freezer, so the verdict will be in soon.
<00, Diana
Ahhhhh I’ve been waiting for this day. Yes, more Peanut Butter!
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Ethan Kurzweil has a presentation posted on his blog from 8 months ago that I just saw for the first time today. This is my favorite slide in it. I would love to see the fit curve on this slide proved out with empirical hosting/development costs data from startups over time. Considering how long Bessemer has been in the business, I’m sure they could do this if interested.
This graph feels intuitively right to me… but what does it mean when it costs pennies to build and host a high-scale web service? As costs approach zero, I’ll bet there will be an explosion in the number of vertical-specific services that serve small niche audiences. By explosion, I mean increasing by orders of magnitude. I can already feel the reverberations of that explosion today echoing backwards in time as the number of web services launching everyday is accelerating.
Very few of these services will be businesses, but that doesn’t matter because they’ll cost nothing. That’s the point… businesses are hard to create, web services will be trivially easy and cost zero.
None of the startups I speak with (which is far fewer in number than you, I assume) cite time or money as an obstacle for building a web application. It’s always customer acquisition and occasionally monetization strategy. Launching is the easiest part.
The economy will bounce back. Ignore the bloggers (who obviously are trying in vain to steal our readers and our advertisers), ignore the obits for Old Media, ignore the negatives and the craziness that this economy has created. The people in the Depression bounced back, and so will all of us who are going through this crisis. I cannot repeat this often enough: Variety is in profit, which means we’re here to stay.
Tim Gray, in an internal memo to Variety staff (via soupsoup)
Wow, the only thing you’re missing, Tim, is the necessity of your business model (and the business model of all of traditional media) which is absolute control over distribution. It doesn’t exist anymore when you are dealing with digital assets.
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the new KFC..
Why Are 80% of Harvard Students First-Borns? « Thinking About Thinking
Note - the above statistic was made up by the blog author.
Because birth order matters according to Dr. Kevin Leman, author of The Birth Order Book – Why You Are the Way You Are. I’ve been reading it – here’s his framework on how the different orders generally are (noting that not every characteristic applies to every child):
First Child: perfectionist, reliable, conscientious, a list maker, well organized, hard driving, a natural leader, critical, serious, scholarly, logical, doesn’t like surprises, a techie.
Middle Child: mediator, compromising, diplomatic, avoids conflict, independent, loyal to peers, has many friends, a maverick, secretive, used to not having attention.
Youngest Child: manipulative, charming, blames others, attention seeker, tenacious, people person, natural salesperson, precocious, engaging, affectionate, loves surprises.
Only Child: little adult by age seven, very thorough, deliberate, high achiever, self-motivated, fearful, cautious, voracious reader, black-and-white thinker, talks in extremes, can’t bear to fail, has very high expectations for self, more comfortable with people who are older or younger.
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Some of the more interesting breeding grounds in the city are
technology incubators that nurture and mentor young companies. One
example is the new Manhattan arm of Dogpatch Labs, which is backed by
Polaris Venture Partners, an investment firm in the Boston area.
Dogpatch, which opened in January, offers start-ups a place to work,
rent-free, for several months, along with the possibility of securing
an investment down the line.
Socks, crumpled pieces of paper, scribbled-upon white boards and empty
beef jerky packages are scattered around Dogpatch’s roomy office.
“It’s been called a frat house for geeks,” says Peter Flint, a partner
at Polaris who spends several days each week in the New York office.
“There is a lot of excitement and interest budding in New York,” he
says. “And if we can help convince entrepreneurs to think about
staying in New York versus going to Silicon Valley, then that’s a huge
win.”
Currently, 13 companies are housed in the space, including Postling,
the newest spawn of the founders and early employees of Etsy. Locals
cite Etsy, an online shopping bazaar specializing in handmade crafts,
as one of New York’s shining start-up success stories, along with
DoubleClick; TheLadders, a jobs search site; and the Gilt Groupe.
“There wasn’t anything like this in New York when Etsy started,” said
Chris Maguire, a co-founder of both Postling and Etsy. “We worked out
of our apartments for the first few years.”
Wow, what an amazing feeling, to see your baby written in the NY Times (I’m a 7-day-a-week home delivery subscriber). The first time I felt this way was when we got written up in our first “big” blog (ReadWriteWeb, back in August).
Thinking about how much further we have to go makes me anxious to get back to work.
And suddenly I was 12 and back on West 7th Street and Avenue T, playing stick ball with Paulie, Ugo, and Pino. And we were arguing about whether Paulie’s shot was a hit or a foul and to stop the fighting, Ugo yells “Do over!” and just like that, all is forgiven, all is forgotten. It’s not an out. It’s not a foul. It’s not a hit. Do over.
Jerry Colonna talking about the power of the “Do Over” in life.
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