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Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Instagram Founders Helped by Bay Area Connections
“The extraordinary success of Instagram is a tale about the culture of the Bay Area tech scene, driven by a tightly woven web of entrepreneurs and investors who nurture one another’s projects with money, advice and introductions to the right people. By and large, it is a…
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Great inventors engage in divergent or “wrong” thinking, which allows them to explore the full realm of possibilities for a solution - no matter how silly or far-fetched. They’re not necessarily concerned with the most logical solution, and certainly not with one that draws on “conventional wisdom.” As modern-day inventor Sir James Dyson puts it:
We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way… When I was doing my vacuum cleaner, I started out trying a conventionally shaped cyclone, the kind you see in textbooks. But we couldn’t separate the carpet fluff and dog hairs and strands of cotton in those cyclones. It formed a ball inside the cleaner or shot out the exit and got into the motor. I tried all sorts of shapes. Nothing worked. So then I thought I’d try the wrong shape, the opposite of conical. And it worked.”
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“If we want to survive, we must improve. If we want to improve, we must change. If we want to change, we need a culture that not only: Accepts change, but… Embraces and encourages change as well.”
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“Once they join Prime, Amazon’s customers’ gross merchandise volume grows from $400 a year to $900 a year in their first year of membership;”
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35 Outstanding Data Visualization Examples
With information and data easily available to us today, we can gather a large sum of data and information on a particular subject just by surfing the Internet. However, when one gathers too many information or data on a subject, one can easily lose track when studying those content, which is why more and more people are relying on data visualization to make things easier for them.
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Daily chart: which countries have the happiest people? The world is happier than before the financial crisis. The most cheeful citizens tend to live in poor and middle-income countries, while the gloomiest are in rich ones.
Things Entrepreneurs Never Confess To Their VCs
This is a great compilation…funny b/c its true.
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post By Jerry Colonna
Excellent Piece - Excerpt Below:
I read in all these thoughts a steady, consistent wisdom: the wisdom of knowing yourself, your own beliefs, and living them. Enduring the alchemical crucible requires developing the capacity to reflect, to turn the pain of the everyday life as a leader into lessons. Every wisdom tradition I’ve ever encountered—from Fred’s blog to the words of sages—ultimately demands the same thing: we must go inward. That’s often the biggest obstacle to becoming your self. The frenzied, frenetic, do-it-now, answer-the-email-now-or-the-company-will-die-even-though-it’s-3 a.m. attitude is precisely the wrong process of becoming your self. Joseph Campbell, writing in The Power of Myth, says, “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning…a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.” Call that room, at that hour, the crucible of leadership.
“Offer X. Walk to the end of the road. Turn right. If he doesn’t follow you we need to rethink our offer.”
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Recruiting: 8 Qualities Your Best Employees Should Have
via inc.comGreat employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers… they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.
A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance.
A Who’s Who of Social Media - Infographic
A rundown of the large to midsized social networks and how they can fit your small business’ marketing plan. It is broken up by demographics, how many use the service and what common interests of the users are.
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