From GQ — December 2010.
Posts tagged “Startups”
To me it says quite about the state of advertising that this sort of thing gets covered in AdAge. Speaking of which, I have a call with Tumblr in the next few weeks representing a brand.
The gold standard of making it: become a verb.
Also, “That Moment is Instagrammable!”? yea, too early.
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- Software is Media
- Less is More
- Make it Programmable
- Make it Personal
- RESTful
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Founders of the most successful companies are motivated less by the lure of riches than the dream to solve an important problem and benefit the world. As a young, self-taught computer engineer, Mitch Kapor saw an opportunity in the early 1980s, another recessionary period, to create software tools for personal computers that would help businesses be more productive. So in 1982 he founded his own software company called Lotus.
“Some start-ups put a lot of emphasis on work-life balance. I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.”
— Justin Kan from Justin.tv
a profile in Inc.
“We’ve begun tracking employee relationships. When employees log in to their computers, we ask them to look at a picture of a random employee and then ask them how well they know that person — the options include “say hi in the halls,” “hang out outside of work,” and “we’re going to be longtime friends.” We’re starting to keep track of the number and strength of cross-departmental relationships — and we’re planning a class on the topic. My hope is that we can have more employees who plan to be close friends.”
— Jeff Hsieh
Culture is everything and this is a meaningful way to test, measure and track.
“Right before the Geocities sale went through, my wife went to the cash machine to buy groceries for the week and there wasn’t any money in our bank account. I told her to put groceries on the credit card because I knew we were going to sell Geocities the following week. But before that happened, we were living hand to mouth.”
One on One: Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
This is crazy and inspiring.
- Speed
- Instant Utility
- Software is Media
- Less is More
- Make it Programmable
- Make it Personal
- RESTful
- Discoverabilty
- Clean
- Playful
