There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis.
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant. . The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.
Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.
I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.
Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.
barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.
If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can continue to do those things. It could be as a scientist, an educator, an editor, a journalist, the founder of an organization. You only live once, and it is a tragedy if you deny yourself these options without trying to pursue them.