January 2009
20 posts
“Great companies are defined by the great people behind them. There are no great...”
– Alex Iskold, Are YOU Replaceable? - ReadWriteWeb (via factoryjoe)
December 2008
31 posts
“Freedom is just another word for entrepreneurship.”
– Entrepreneurship.gov - Fostering Entrepreneurship Worldwide (via factoryjoe)
“We figure if we keep this up, we can make more money from ancillary revenue than...”
– Aviation Dally » United to Launch Dozens of New Branded Products to Boost Ancillary Revenue
“Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com
“These rocket scientists and engineers were designing complex financial...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com
“You get a finite number of years on this planet – make the most of all of them,...”
– Feld Thoughts (via fred-wilson)
Christmas Morning
Brother-in-Law: Did you get this for me?
Sister: No, Santa did.
Brother-in-Law: Really?
Sister: Yeah, he knows you have problems :)
Happy Holidays!
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To all of my amazing friends, family, and colleagues around the world this holiday season. May your fingers be warm, cocoa be rich, and the coming year be as wonderful as the last.
Happy Holidays!
Live life well.
Dave
Convo w/ Mom
Ricky, the problem is MTV stopped playing music.
rickyv:
“Do I get the channel that your TV program is on?”
“Yeah, it’s on MTV. Your cable has it.”
“That’s what I thought — the channel with the music and the rock and rollers. So I flipped through the channels and looked for punk rockers playing music and I couldn’t find it.”
Papu: It has warmed up so much since last week!
Dave: It is 1 degree outside.
Papu: That's Montana!
Dave: So they tell me.
“Tumblr is exactly the kind of start-up that’s supposed to be gasping for air in...”
– agreed with fred on this one.
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it’s way too early to call Tumblr a success, but “gasping for air?” if any of the people who wrote about the funding news actually used tumblr, i think they’d have had a different take
Who Said Web 2.0 Was R.I.P.? Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million,...
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told...”
– Steve Jobs - On managing through the economic downturn (15) - FORTUNE
How To: Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8...
Platform Love Panel - Le Web, Paris
“Branding, in times like these, is not a luxury. It is a survival tool.”
– Julie Cucchi (via betaworks)
This is true. It’s also true that companies that successfully increase brand awareness, affinity and loyalty during recessions emerge from the recession faster and more successfully than competitors who didn’t invest in brand building.
(via mikehudack)
“Rather than survey a bunch of users on every decision, the Mac team decided each...”
– Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not | TechRadar UK
Socialising all over the web? | The Economist →
“Don’t squeeze anyone. Make other people rich. Align interests and move on. You...”
– great words of wisdom from andy swan which i totally agree with
Howard Lindzon
(via fred-wilson)
“I friended her, and wrote, ‘This is the end of my illusion of innocence. Now you...”
– My friend Jonathan describes how his grandmother now has a Facebook account. (via caro)
“Such a system is sure to be welcomed by the web’s most social users, many...”
– As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID’s Challenges Grow | Epicenter from Wired.com
