February 2012
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BRYCE DOT VC: Rise of the Independents →
brycedotvc:
DHH put up a provocative post the other day questioning the societal norms of the startup culture…/p>
Indie businesses will be comfortable playing by their own rules even if they may fly in the face of startup cultural norms. They will chase opportunities in markets that may be small, niche or non-existent instead of jumping on the most fundable fad. They will find ways...
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“the Obama administration…has brought more prosecutions against current or...”
– A High-Tech War on Leaks - NYTimes.com
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“The reason social media and digital information companies want that data is...”
– The piracy of online privacy | Paul Smalera
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“There is a strategic tension between being metrics-driven and being creative;...”
– Xconomy - All Stories - Nabeel Hyatt on the Next Consumer Startup Model: Metrics Creative
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“the idea that more money comes from fewer people appears to be nothing but a...”
– How the Myth of the Algorithm Fools the Market | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
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“Internet use affects transactive memory, which is “the capacity to remember who...”
– Memory enhancement technology and a future without forgetting. - Slate Magazine
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“it might be worth more — particularly in the long term — to spend the time...”
– Twitter and the incredible shrinking news cycle — Tech News and Analysis
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“If someone tweets something newsworthy and no one retweets it, did she make a...”
– Social media tool aims to help journalists find undiscovered, reliable sources on Twitter | Poynter.
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“you should always remind yourself why people work at startups in the first...”
– Scaling startups « Chad Dickerson’s blog
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“Analytics will not ruin your news. You will not write about Justin Beiber or...”
– editorial
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5 New Ways to Monetize Your Content in 2012 →
Interesting.
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“With its giants in skimpy uniforms, basketball allows us to see, clearly and...”
– freedarko.com: The Lives of Others
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“During the interwar period, public recognition of Jewish basketball led both...”
– ProQuest Document View - “A sport at which Jews excel”: Jewish basketball in American society, 1900—1951
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“the more time we spend posting and also ‘curating’ ourselves on social media...”
– Drilling down | Ashley Milne-Tyte
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“New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico wrote in the mid 1930s that...”
– First Basket: Jews and Basketball | Jewlicious THE Jewish Blog
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“stereotyping only makes sense in the absence of better data. In the case of...”
– Adventures in Capitalism: Jeremy Lin, Women in VC, and the Bigotry of Pattern Matching
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“another VC recently told me his firm recently had passed on opportunities to...”
– Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive » Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool » Real Dan Lyons Web Site
Zing.
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“Brands and their marketers suffer from what I refer to as medium’alism, a...”
– Engagement Ain’t Nothing But A Number | PandoDaily
See also: “if you build it, they will come”.
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“Since Plato’s diatribe against writing, few emerging media and...”
– The Myth of the Disconnected Life - Technology - The Atlantic
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“How people build their networks in social applications is informed by the...”
– Facebook, It’s like Instagram for Birthdays | jake levine
An elegant expression of an intuitive notion. 