Domino’s Pizza has reported a 29% surge in pre-tax profits to £17.5m, buoyed by a strong performance from e-commerce sales and attributed its link-up with Foursquare as key to its recent performance.
Please listen to this piece closely. We, at OATV, are big believers that we’re on the cusp of the next Industrial Revolution and many principles that can guide entrepreneurs in that area are contained in this video clip.
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life — the life you author from scratch on your own — begins.
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you apologize?
Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?
Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
When it’s tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story
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| — | Jeff Bezos to the 2010 graduating class of Princeton University. |
A great clip of Francis Ford Coppola explaining his role in the making of Patton. Money quote: “The things you are fired for are often the things later in life you are celebrated and given lifetime achievements for…”
Fail, it’s not in my dictionary. I’ve got a good dictionary up there and the words ‘fail’ and ‘failure’ have been ruled out for years. I don’t know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I’ve got to wait another 20 years for what I’m after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.
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An appendage to the idea of fail fast, fail often from the great trainer Percy Cerutty Failure as temporary non-success. |
All of us at USV hate that question. The interrogator is expecting a crisp answer - wireless, local, realtime, or video. In an earlier era, they might have expected gigabit routers, gallium arsenide chips, high capacity flash memory. There’s the problem. The next big thing is becoming increasingly abstract. It used to be hardware, then it was software, then web services of various kinds, but even as moves away from technology and toward human nature, people still cling to crisp technological descriptions. Fred yesterday, said he now answers the question with a quick recap of the current buzzwords, but then says it is none of the above, rather it is the soup that is created when you mix all these technologies together with lots of users. That is the right answer, but unsatisfying to someone who wants a headline.
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Brad Burnham from What is the next big investment idea? This is right up there with my least favorite questions asked of VCs. Regardless of how clever or provocative you try to be in answering it, the questioner is generally underwhelmed by the answer. I’ve come to believe that the most interesting areas of investment don’t have a label yet. They don’t fit nicely into an established box. That’s why the start-up business is such a fascinating one- the next big thing probably looks and sounds terribly disappointing and uninteresting today. But give it time… |
ha! for those wondering how dennis/naveen let me slip thru the cracks to get the chance to wrk at foursquare!
This is how you go after something you want kids. There are no free lunches and the best companies are rarely looking to hire you. Tristan is a great example of the kind of hustle that will get you where you want to be.
To say its humbling to partner with Tim in building OATV would be a huge understatement.
O’Reilly is worth listening to because he has been on top of nearly every important technology development of the past three decades. His company got into the e-book business more than 20 years before the release of the Kindle; it created the first commercial website; and it was making money off the open-source software movement when software patents were still the rage. In short, he is the guy who will tell you what smart people will be talking about five years from now — the guy who predicts the future.
Today we’re rolling out a new release of the bit.ly website, designed to help you more easily shorten, share, and track your links. The interface has been redesigned from the ground up to be easier to use, faster to load, and provide brand new features. The new release (which we’ve been…
The next layer peeled back on bitly’s world domination strategy.
Right now, I think a lot of people feel like we’re pawns in the game between Google and Facebook for web domination. Neither’s going to dominate the web. Neither needs to rush madly into things to get ahead. And both need to remember we’re not pawns, not even users but instead flesh-and-blood human beings that need to be treated better.
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You aren’t buying a computer when you buy an iPad, you are buying a 16GB Walmart store shelf that fits on your lap - complete with all the supplier beat downs, slotting fees, and exclusive deals that go with it - and Apple got you to pay for the building.
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| — | Money quote from a thoughtful piece on the Radar blog. |
