December 2009
8 posts
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“I don’t think there are people who are just better at startups…I think...”
– Wences Casares as quoted in a TechCrunch article
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“Great entrepreneurs are hard to work for. They jerk you around, change things...”
– Fred Wilson in his blog post about “Action Oriented.” Read the whole article for other great insights (and quotes).
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Inevitable World Changer: Wireless Electricity
There are certain world changing innovations that few if any people could have predicted. A lot of web 2.0 fits into this category - Twitter for example. I think even Facebook’s influence was a huge surprise as was blogging.
On the other hand, there are inevitable world changing innovations that almost everyone could have guessed would be successful. I’ve always said the dominance of...
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Bloomington, Indiana Quietly Leading the Future of...
Few people know this, but Author Solutions located in Bloomington, Indiana publishes more titles per year than ANY other major publisher, and by a long shot.
How do they do it? For starters, they don’t discriminate when it comes to authors.
Author Solutions is in the business of helping authors self-publish their books. They can help with almost everything whether its editing, creating a...
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TechCrunch Reports ExactTarget's Latest Funding... →
ExactTarget continues to be Indianapolis’ premier darling. Even the location of their offices on Monument Circle, the heart of downtown, is the perfect analogy for the position they hold in the Indianapolis tech community.
As much as I look up to and try to emulate ExactTarget, I think too often their success is used as proof that the Indianapolis startup community is thriving.
As this...
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“You start a company with 10,000 major things stacked against you. These evil...”
– John Ramey on why he moved isocket from Indiana to Silicon Valley http://blog.isocket.com/2008/09/isocket-moves-to-silicon-valley/
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“Valley Culture has an unwritten rule that if you don’t like a job, or if...”
– Paul Boutin in a Wired Magazine post
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The Most Misunderstood Poem of All Time is Well...
You know that poem by Robert Frost? The one about the “road less travelled”? Do you know what it’s called?
It’s not called “the road less travelled”…and for good reason.
It seems like everyone loves that poem and it’s because everyone can relate to it. Everyone dreams of wanting to be a pioneer. Everyone wants to do something that’s never...