“I know it sounds ‘aw shuckish’ but it’s true,” Efrusy said. “All the really interesting investments have an element of foolishness to them and you could kill any deal by pointing out what’s wrong. The freedom to take risks comes from your partners.
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March 17th, 2011
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February 11th, 2011
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Stay hydrated and wear comfortable shoes.
- Josh Stylman
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February 8th, 2011
aweissman“So stop listening to your customers and start watching what they do. Actions have always spoken louder than words. Who knows, the actions of your users may very well be telling you something more powerful about what your business can become than what their, or your, words ever will.
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February 1st, 2011
aweissman“Yeah, Tumblr is kind of a mess. Its a little bit broken. Its a little ADD. Its spread a little too thin. Just like me. Which is why I love the service and and why I don’t plan to leave.
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January 12th, 2011
aweissman“When an entrepreneur steps to the whiteboard the energy in the room totally changes. There’s movement, there’s action, there’s something happening that requires attention. The conversation moves from consuming images on a screen in lean back mode, to active engagement. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.
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December 30th, 2010
aweissman“In the end, openness is only as important as the user experience it enables.
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December 15th, 2010
aweissman“Compartmentalized ideas, are like cold eggs. They look good, but if no one eats them – they just sit there.Andy Monfried, CEO of Lotame
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December 14th, 2010
aweissman“There’s no magic solution here, just get up out of bed and take a shower.
great post on the hard work of finding your first job out of college
(via fred-wilson)
(via fred-wilson)
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December 3rd, 2010
aweissman“Ahmet Ertegun was a Venture capitalist. A brilliant risk taker, and he knew how to stomach failure. He also signed artists purely on gut instinct. In many ways these new VC’s and Tech entrepreneurs resemble him.David Lowery, Cracker/Camper van Beethoven
(Source: lefsetz.com)
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November 30th, 2010
aweissman“TV really does need search. It also needs scrobbling, channel bookmarking, recommendations, playlists, and all the other information architecture tools that have evolved to manage the firehose of content on the open internet. The information architecture of legacy TV is oriented towards the tiny amount of content that was available before the advent of cable TV. It’s been a long time since then.
