“ It is not about building a smoother version of what already exists in the market. That is a transient advantage as existing companies adopt technology. If you want to build something big and lasting you have use the internet/mobile to do something that simply was not possible before.
May 24
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“ Context is that dynamic space couched between what we sell as companies and what our customers believe they buy.
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“ Since the Lehman Brothers collapse, tech has been carrying the New York City economy. It’s been an engine of growth and has helped diversify New York’s economy beyond Wall Street. They’re creating jobs and eating up more real estate.
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Yahoo to Move Into Old New York Times Headquarters - NYTimes.com
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“ The top 100 tech companies granted 19% of their total ownership to non-senior-executive employees. For the rest of corporate America, that number was 2%. In other words, when it came time to share rewards with ordinary employees, the Tech 100 were ten times more generous than low-tech firms.
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i could reblog SBJ all day long
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“ It’s precisely because we lack a new vocabulary to describe this worldview that we end up lumping the tech sector together in the libertarian camp.
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“ There is much of Silicon Valley that warrants criticism: the mono-culture now threatening San Francisco’s storied diversity and general weirdness; the anonymous office park sprawl of its built spaces; the male-dominated engineering culture; its assumption that all disruptions are good ones by definition; its casual scorn for older institutions.
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“ A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing: to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitos, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.
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I Got A Thing - Funkadelic
i was getting ready to go through all my likes this week to find the reblog of the week and this post popped up in my dashboard. stopped me in my tracks. no questions now.
andy gets the reblog of the week
man do i love george clinton
Funkadelic - I Got A Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing
So good, the intense desperation of the song always got it.
Sounds unlike anything else, then or since.
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“ If other people can’t use pull-to-refresh, they can never build on top of it either.
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yes. that’s the point. software is an ecosystem. it’s like music. we should not be patenting it.
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Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively | The Verge
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