May 2011
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March 2011
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January 2011
2 posts
“At $50 billion, though, Facebook is going to have to come out with the biggest...”
– Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay (via mikehudack)
I don’t think they do. The $500M Goldman just gave them was their IPO, just without any of the public regulation hassle.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
gbattle sez (from my comments here):
Actually, Goldman can’t lose in this scenario...
December 2010
9 posts
“In the end, the founder has three main roles at the company. The first is to...”
– Michael Lazerow, breaking down how to survive the fundraising process without losing your soul. (via gbattle)
October 2010
2 posts
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
1 post
“I think the only lessons you ever actually learn in life are the ones you pay...”
– Michael Laine’s comment on AVC
A VC: Sunk Costs
(via fred-wilson) (via dherman)
May 2010
5 posts
“Once you measure fat or calorie content as a proxy for the healthfulness of...”
– Goodhart’s Law: Once you measure something, it changes. (via jayparkinsonmd) (via mikehudack) (via rafer)
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” -T.E. Lawrence
April 2010
5 posts
March 2010
2 posts
“These aren’t deals (one of my least favorite words in our business), these are...”
– Truer words have never been spoken, from BRYCE DOT VC: Deal Fever (via betaworks)
Watchfantastic!
February 2010
8 posts
More From Jonathan Harris' Today
There was a soldier in the locker room this morning, putting on fatigues. Next to him was an old Mexican man, putting on jeans. They were making small talk and stepping into their pants.
“I work part time for the Guard,” said the soldier, and lined up his boots on the wet floor.
“For my day job I’m a private investigator.” He loosened the laces and put his feet...
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Jonathan Harris on Being 30 and Male
Feb 9, 2010 . Santa Fe, NM
Last week a friend of mine split up with his long-time girlfriend after several years of trying to make it work. When he wrote to tell me, he included part of a poem called Men at Forty by Donald Justice, which goes:
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
It is a beautiful poem that made me shudder, and it’s...
January 2010
7 posts
Star Wars in Odd Places - hat tip @eric →
Carey Business School Professor Quoted on Possible...
Phillip Phan, a business professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Baltimore, foresees difficulties in the boardroom between Zennstrom and Friis and their fellow stakeholders.
“It’s obvious that the founders have an emotional interest in the company,” says Phan, who teaches corporate governance. “I suspect you will see an ongoing battle in the executive suite between the founders and...
Real-Time Web Growth Still Staggering
Twitter: Jan 11th was the highest usage day ever (source: @ev via techcrunch)
Tweetdeck: did 4,143,687 updates on Jan 8, yep 4m. Or, 48 per second (source: Iain Dodsworth / tweetdeck internal data)
Foursquare: Jan 9th biggest day ever. 1 update or check-in per second (source: twitter and techcrunch)
Daily Booth: in past 30 days more than 10mm uniques (source: dailybooth internal data)
Bit.ly:...
December 2009
11 posts
“The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all...”
– Do We Still Feel Fine or Are We Facing a Digital Crisis? via Number27.org
