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August 08 2010
The Dandy Warhols At Koko London
Most amazing though is to have been there with old great friends whom I'm missing so much.
August 05 2010
“ Entrepreneurialism is surely a mind-set, but it is also a skill. ”— End poverty: Export capitalism
August 04 2010
“ Spare time is the mother of all inventions. ”— DrZuco, a very famous photographer in Tokyo.
August 03 2010
“ Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that, like the manager of the Central Station, you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going. ”— Bureaucracies /via Solitude and Leadershipi
August 02 2010
S'pore marketeers not chirping to Twitter's tune - Internet - News
Shared by papadimitriouMicroblog site takes "backseat" in marketing campaigns, say Singapore marketing agencies, which instead point to Facebook as their preferred platform of choice.
Twitter a "teen-tool adopted by teens-wannabees" in Singapore?
I’ll take out the Sun. Back where we begun again.
How To Get Our Attention, A Case Study
Many a post has come before this one on the special adventure that is pitching TechCrunch. And while most of our writers have their own preferences (Please don’t call my cell before 7 a.m. unless you’re Google, and you’re buying Twitter. And you’ve made breakfast in bed.) there’s definitely a right and wrong way to ping tips@techcrunch if you’re a startup hungry for coverage. The following...
August 01 2010
Report: Rakuten To Link Japan And Taiwan Online Malls
Japan’s biggest business daily, The Nikkei, today reports that the country’s biggest e-commerce company, Rakuten, is planning to links its Japanese and Taiwanese online malls so that customers from these countries can order products from both Japan- and Taiwan-based merchants.
According to the paper, the integration will take place by the end of this year. But it’s not going to b...
July 31 2010
July 30 2010
Are Most VCs Dinosaurs Who Need to Hurry Up and Die?
Angel investor and startup advisor Dave McClure
Updated: The latest salvo in the ongoing debate over the health of the technology venture capital industry comes from investor and startup advisor Dave McClure in a blog post entitled “Moneyball For Startups.” One of the big questions that continue to spark heated discussion is whether angel or “super-angel” funds and investors are inherently...
Product Is The New Marketing
Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
Brands can't hide any more. If you're reading this Blog, you already knew that.
Last night Jeff Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) was on Charlie Rose to discuss the latest iteration of the e-book reader, Kindle (you can watch the conversation right here). While reading Bob Lefsetz tonight, I came across this quote that Bezos said to Rose during the conversation:
"Before if you were making a...
Data Privacy Around The Globe
Country-specific regulations governing privacy and data protection vary greatly
Check the interactive map Forrester has put together. Insightful. ➡ Do You Know Where Your Data Is In The Cloud?
July 29 2010
Knickers In A Twist
the early & late majority will never come without social proof. These are the people who want to see ROI studies (business), read NY Times reviews by David Pogue or WSJ reviews by Walt Mossberg (consumer)
Mark is on a roll. His past blog entries are nothing short of brilliant. His take on the famous funnel from early adopters to a majority of customers for your product is the type of articles I’d like to read everyday. ➡ How to Acquire Customers by Marketing “Heroes”
Romantic Danger
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...
Boom Goes The Dynamite
All hail the 500startups pirate ship! Dave ‘Sparrow’ at the helm! Godspeed. ➡ @500Startups