My business mentor from afar: the brilliant Jack Dorsey.
(Source: allthingsd.com)
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Whether you are building a new business, investing as an angel or deploying the capital of others, the guiding principles are the same:
Know thyself and act with confidence: it will set you free.
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Information Arbitrage: Know thyself
If you are an entrepreneur or an investor, do yourself a favor. Read the full article.
Loving the progression of investment networks for African opportunities…
(via Venture Capital for Africa | Blog | Hard to get to Africa’s SMEs, time to finance the missing middle)
Great article explaining to me why this is my target market.
Time for me to keep track of African startups
“Brand humility is the only response to a fast-changing and competitive marketplace. The humble brand understands that it needs to re-earn attention, re-earn loyalty and reconnect with its audience as if every day is the first day.”
Seth’s Blog: Brand exceptionalism
Well said. For the meek shall inherit the earth. Corporate and individual alike.
Agreed.
“the website as you know it” is “dead, dying, will be dying,” and that the future lies in reinventing Web experiences on the mobile phone.
many smart folks have been saying this for a long time and it’s so damn true.
Excellent presentation! It made its point in the first 10 slides. All businesses and entrepreneurs must remember to build an experience not just a product.
I learned something and was inspired. Reblog worthy.
LOVE Tom Ford and Karl Lagerfeld is THE flyest. #period ….Awesome interview.
(via @moderndistinction)
My new entrepreneurial role model and idol - Jack Dorsey. Find an hour and watch this talk. The brilliance exuding from this guy is inspiring.
“If ever there were an opportunity to think big and attack large markets with incumbent players, its now. I’m a believer that in the next 5 years we’re going to see every major industry reinvented in ways we didn’t see coming. I mean, who would have guessed a silly little site for college kids could reinvent the IPO?”
BRYCE DOT VC: Everything will be reinvented
Fantastic post.
“There’s an endless debate about the good and bad of selling a company that’s still growing in the Valley right now. There’s the obvious macro-economic answer: Everyone selling too early is bad, because no new tech giants are created. There’s the obvious micro-answer: A few million dollars is life changing for most people, and those entrepreneurs deserve to make a life-changing amount of money.”
If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind
Interesting thought. Being a part of a startup media company, I have to admit that the micro-answer does resonate with me. But I also have to admit that I want BlackTree to become a new media giant and disrupt the current corporate media landscape. There is certainly a middle ground that rewards founders and still makes corporate history. The question is: Does that founder have the knowledge and patience to make the right deal so that can happen?
“The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.”
Max Levchin, PayPal cofounder: FailCon: Failing Forward To Success : NPR
TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN…
Great lessons in this article. If your business is online, you should read this. Here’s a 1 gem:
In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery.
…In theory you could beat the death spiral by buying good programmers instead of hiring them. You can get programmers who would never have come to you as employees by buying their startups. But so far the only companies smart enough to do this are companies smart enough not to need to.
