Stop “Disrupting” Everything via Slate
The valley sells innovation, yet serves up picture apps and other frivolous nonsense. Don’t get me wrong, some of those things can make money for investors, but to couch it as “disruptive” is about as convincing as a McRib sandwich. Maybe we can tone down the “disruption” hyperbole and simply admit that many of the startups funded by VC’s are purely about cashing in on the latest fad. Most VC’s could care less about innovation.
(via marksbirch)(via marksbirch)
So, you want to deal with the enterprise? Or be B2B2C? Brace yourselves.
In brief: 1. at least $100k in funding 2. a specialist legal firm 3. a US-incorporated company 4. two months of concerted effort. It’s the American dream, baby!
In 2012, Internet thought leader Maciej Cegłowski rocked the startup community with his provocative slogan ‘Barely Succeed’, challenging prospective entrepreneurs to reject the lottery culture of Silicon Valley in favor of small, sustainable projects that could give them a more realistic shot at financial independence.
Today he has unleashed the second part of his business philosophy, ‘Barely Invest’, which shatters the myth that financing is the main obstacle to creating a small technology business. In a world where social capital has become the bottleneck to success, Cegłowski intends to seize the commanding heights of the New Economy as the Internet’s premier social capitalist.
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The lesson here (I think) is that if you blog passive aggressively at a large company, your Internet fight might become a philanthropic meme war. And this, friends, is why the Internet is awesome.
(via Boston talent wars descend into Internet geekery and philanthropy | PandoDaily)
Buffalo mozzarella from Italy is perhaps the most difficult cheese to replicate. Is the Silicon Valley consultant-turned-dairy-farmer named Craig Ramini in over his head?
(via Buffalo Mozzarella, the Great White Whale of American Cheesemaking - NYTimes.com)
