February 2012
5 posts
If you liked Asimov's fake science paper →
Check out the fake press story for “Edan”
“You know what’s great about the YC network? It gives the benefit of being part...”
– Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation | Fast Company (via infoneer-pulse)
“Research shows that when people work with a positive mind-set, performance on...”
– Harvard Business Review (via thaithai)
Grimey's Garden: Terry Gilliam 10 Lessons For... →
rubenfm:
I think I agree with pretty much all of Terry’s rules.
maddenmeiners:
2. Film school is for fools.
Live and learn how to make films. I didn’t go to film school. I just watched movies in the cinemas. And probably my greater education was actually making films, so that’s all I would ever say: watch movies, get a camera, make a movie. And if you do it enough times, eventually you...
January 2012
9 posts
“But what’s exciting is, because of the success that the amateur class has had...”
– Yancey talked to Cinespect about Kickstarter, Sundance, and the future of independent cinema. It’s a great conversation — read the whole thing here. (via kickstarter)
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“After writing the screenplay over seven weeks in the Starbucks section of a...”
– Juno (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via lolololori)
I loved Jason Reitman’s “Up In the Air” and how he used music from Kevin Renick, however, the basic plot of Juno was an episode of Canadian television’s ReGenesis, staring Ellen Page. So did they demo...
New York City gets a Software Engineering High... →
infoneer-pulse:
This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New York’s elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to...
12 Things Happy People Do Differently →
(via ljbowman10)
Every Brand Will Be A Studio: Philosophical... →
npr:
USA.gov: Nominate Movies for the National Film Registry
usagov:
The Library of Congress is seeking nominations for the 2012 National Film Registry.
Under the National Film Preservation Act, the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the National Film Registry every year. In order for a film to be eligible, it must be at least 10 years old and be culturally,…
“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of...”
– President George Washington (via azspot)
December 2011
6 posts
Watchfastcompany:
“If ever there is a moment to join or start up your own company, this is it,” says Smith. “To be the little nimble startups that can run rings around the major corporations and move faster than them and be more innovative than them, the moment is now.”
How Michael Acton Smith Got Out Of Perplex City And Found Moshi Monster Success
Design Driven Software
meaningcreative:
I have been working as a designer with web development since 1996, and over the last decade I observed a trend with software companies that abandoned traditional media and eventually design based branding altogether. Google being the front runner.
Part of it makes sense, why advertise on outdated and overpriced platforms, when you can make your own?
I think this trend was...
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
8 posts
“Dropbox’s ascent has been just as stunning. The 50-million-user figure is up...”
– Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup - Forbes (via mediafuturist)
“To My Only Love” an improvisational inspirational...
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Designers Are The New Drivers Of American... →
jonathanmoore:
This growing desire among designers to bring their user focus, strategic vision, iterative methodologies, and propositional thinking to the still-geeky, tech/engineering-centric world of startups promises to be transformative and explosive.
This is exactly why I left the ad agency world and ditched all clients after an amazing 11 year run. The future is incredibly bright.
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Massive Happiness On Facebook →
Be in the first 100 page “Likes” and win a free rainbow.
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who...”
– William Phelps (via atomos)
September 2011
8 posts
Pitch Like A Pro
54% of startups that use this pitch in under 6 minutes get funded.
What We Do Kick off with a simple sentence “my company is “X”, and we do “Y”.
Value Proposition State what problemo the product or service is solving.
How It Works Use plain language and not industry jargon. Explain how it works and how it is better.
Business Model Define your plan for...
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“Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow,...”
– Zion Lee (via sweetlydeceptive)
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YouTube adds a built-in video editor →
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Kickstarter: No thanks? @IndieGoGo: Yes Please? →
All the work is for not, even if you are a few bucks short of your goal, that is a grand waste of everyone’s time in my mind. And I can’t pay using Paypal?
IndieGoGo seems like the best solution.
Anonymous asked: who are you
July 2011
4 posts
“The Cowboys and Aliens pitch to Harrison Ford was 2 pages long. The first page...”
– Cody Lee (via alexheath)
June 2011
13 posts
