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::sigh:: Dave introduced me to this money quote the other day by Yves Behar: “Advertising is the price you pay for being unoriginal”. The price in Microsoft’s case, $300 million. fail.

http://www.angelblog.net/Startups_The_Essential_To_Do_List.html?RSS (tags: startup list structure venture)

in light of recent *cough* national events surrounding wall street, i just wanted to point out that the word “ussr” is used more often in common language than the word “innovation”. do your part and send your favorite hedge fund manager or ibanker exec a singing telegram: *you don’t know how lucky you are, boy* [...]

This summer, I was at bar called Weeds here in Chicago with some friends when a guy came up to us with a styrofoam container that had a handle on it like a cooler and said “Tamales?” No, he didn’t work at the bar, and no he didn’t speak the greatest English so I wasn’t [...]

we’re busy trying to figure out what the guest experience is going to look like on bettr@ and what the hook might be to get someone to join an already awesome content aggregation site. obviously, we think that guidance and mentorship is a huge part of informal learning, but is it large enough to warrant [...]

F|R: How to Avoid Feature Creep with Your Software Apps – GigaOM The Vision/Mission Statement Test The Audience Test: The Scope Test: The Best Solution Test The Revenue Test The Attraction/Retention Test (tags: webdesign usability startups productmanagement simplicity) College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs – NYTimes.com “It would be much better for the [...]

Education: Sats put primary pupils off science, says study | Education | The Guardian (tags: schools education learning testing) Top 10 Sources of Logo Design Inspiration update ze logo? (tags: logo webdesign resources reference)

Lately, I’ve been reflecting about the meaning of being in “beta”. Web startups are interesting because they can always be in motion, adding new features and functions on a weekly, daily, or even hourly basis (though that’s a little overboard). The iPhone is kind of like being in beta. You can add bells and whistles [...]

Yoshiro Nakamatsu, We Salute You // Brainsturbator this guy is pretty awesome (tags: invention innovator japan)

YouTube – Riz Khan – Schools killing creativity? – 10 Sep 08 – Part 1 (tags: creativity schools education learning)

Jason Fried – Things We’ve Learned at 37Signals | Kris Jordan (tags: startup software toread work) What entrepreneurs need to know about Founders’ Stock « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog (tags: venturecapital entrepreneurship stock finance)

Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death. People vote Republican because Republicans offer "moral clarity"—a simple vision of good and evil that [...]