November 2009
14 posts
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
WatchSlides from our VCTips session at Web 2.0 Expo in NYC on Monday.
“We can support millions of customers with low-cost PCs in a conference room, and...”
– Ted Leonsis on the infrastructure required to run Revolution Money vs. traditional credit card processors.
Using foursquare to drive charitable giving...
foursquare:
Most of you know how foursquare tries to reward you for doing things in the real world… discovering new places, doing interesting things, meeting new friends… they all unlock points and badges.
For a long time, we’ve wanted to make foursquare points translate into something meaningful… maybe they translate into a free coffee or something like AmEx rewards or frequent flyer miles. ...
Announcing The Launch of 301 Works
bitly:
Big news for little URLs today, as the Internet Archive announced that they will be taking the lead on 301works.org, an effort designed to add permanence and reliability to the operation of URL shorteners.
From the release:
The Internet Archive and founding companies announce today the launch of 301Works.org, a service to archive shortened Universal Resource Locators (URLs). This will...
Vote up your favorite OMGPOP ideas
I love seeing how others use Get Satisfaction beyond just providing customer support.
omgpop:
When anyone has an awesome idea on OMGPOP, they post it in our GetSatisfaction Feedback section.
What’s cool is that everyone gets to vote on the ideas they like, and over here at OMGPOP headquarters, we get to see what the most popular stuff is and we consider doing it if we think its cool too. ...
Fundraising Seasons
Though wildly generalized and US centric, this list is instructive on optimal time frames to begin the fundraising process:
- January 6 – May 15th (green zone)
- May 16th – June 30th (yellow zone)
- July 1st – September 7th (red zone)
- September 8th – October 15th (green zone)
- October 16th – October 31st (yellow zone)
- November 1st – January 7th (red zone)
via Mark Suster
WatchA few months back I was approached by Microsoft to present to a group of their senior tech executives at an annual retreat called SoftServe. Its a 3 day event where they discuss their strategy around the move to hosted web services. Specific to me, they asked for a read on how Microsoft is perceived by start-ups, what trends we’re seeing at OATV and few examples of start-ups they should be...
“If you imitate a person you admire, the best you can possibly hope for is to...”
– Nice quote from Donald Judd via the Jonathan Harris lecture that’s floating around.
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Imitation (via heyitsnoah)
“If you take the lottery winners out of the lottery, the case for playing the...”
– Quote posted by @pehub (great follow for consistent stream of venture and private equity related news- btw).