February 2011
9 posts
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Foursquare Hiring Practice →
I noticed the little bit about hiring not just engineers, but engineers who really understood social.
January 2011
19 posts
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Inside Twitter HQ →
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“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People...”
– http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2010/08/05/scaling-startups/
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Chad Dickerson (Etsy CEO) On Scaling Startups →
Actively develop culture, put mechanisms in place which help it grow at the same time the business does.
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Andrew Lin formerly of Zappos, now at Sequoia says... →
Have you heard other investors or VC firms mention culture?
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Bryan Fish's Blog →
Check it out, it’s good stuff!
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Overview of how Zynga builds its team →
I love how everyone is a “CEO of Something” not only does it empower people and get them more involved, it also creates more accountability.
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First Tunisia, then Egypt, now... Yemen? →
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Great Lone Star Migration →
Let’s hope Texas doesn’t raise taxes and social services, I feel like they won’t for a long time. Was considering NYC and SF to move our business, then recently thought about Chile, Austin maybe?
Boeing is in a tough spot, announce Y2 plans... →
“Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not one bit simpler. - Einstein”
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“It means using disclosure as a tool to inform consumers of their choices, rather...”
– When discussing changing our regulations to help business. Hopefully he means this as it is the best way to regulate. PS Read the book Nudge.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703396604576088272112103698.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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Strawman Idea
I was reading Mark Suster’s blog post,
< href=”http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/01/17/how-i-use-visualization-to-drive-creativity/”>”How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity”</a>
When I cam across a a term he used, Strawman Idea. Now I know the term strawman argument. You respond to an argument with a rebuttal that attacks a similar but not...
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Contrarian
For the next week, I will be a contrarian for the for the sake of simply being a contrarian. Why? Though I can be a leader, can be creative, can be innovative, all too often I simply try to be agreeable. I’ll let you know how it goes.
“I’d rather try and fail, than wish and watch”
– (via johnexley)
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FAFSA Website Doesn't Support Chrome
Just a heads up to all of you college students who use Google Chrome. You will likely need to use a different browser. Chrome updates regularly (we are on version 9 right now) but FAFSA only allows Chrome 6 or 7. What do you expect? PS, if you aren’t using Chrome, you should give it a try!
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American Airlines Taking it to the GDS'
Good timing too, they choose to strike right after the holiday travel season (well actually during it, but most tickets were already bought) so any affected sales will be during the down time of Jan-Feb anyway. Smart thinking, hope they do well! GDS’ are outdated and unneeded with the internet.
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Just listened to Imagine for the first time
Horrible song.
Not only did it almost put me to sleep, it sounded like Marx himself wrote it.
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