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Mar
15th

Mon

A better definition comes from former Secretary of State Colin Powell who said: “You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.” For our purposes, we can generalize this to be the measure of the quality of a leader: the quantity, quality and diversity of people who want to follow her.

— Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, … And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove

Tags: entrepreneurship leadership

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Mar
10th

Wed

Google’s Chief Economist: “Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News”

Tags: entrepreneurship online internet newspaper media

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Mar
4th

Thu

Facebook Revenues Up to $700 Million in 2009, On Track Towards $1.1 Billion in 2010

Tags: entrepreneurship internet facebook

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Mar
3rd

Wed

blog.pmarca.com: Angels vs. Venture Capitalists

If you are interested in VC, this is a must-read.

Tags: venture capital angel investing entrepreneurship

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Feb
9th

Tue

The 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review - comScore, Inc

Free report from ComScore on 2009 key figures on the online space.

Tags: internet entrepreneurship

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Feb
8th

Mon

Social Graph Clustering

If someone had doubts about the value of the data that can be inferred from the social graph, take a look at this clustering of the US: PeteSearch: How to split up the US

Tags: internet entrepreneurship facebook social graph

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Feb
2nd

Tue

Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses

Insightful post by Tripod founder Bo Peabody on social networks and the online media business.

Tags: entrepreneurship media internet social networks

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Jan
27th

Wed

Newsday Online Hits A (Pay)Wall

A Long Island newspaper invested €4 million to redesign its online website with content behind a paywall. They got 35 subscribers in 3 months.

The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000.

Second tier newspapers’ only chance to get some subscription revenue from paying online customers could be taking a share of offers bundling together access to several sources of premium content. The role of aggregator may be taken on by Apple iTunes or Amazon Kindle.

Tags: entrepreneurship media online

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Jan
16th

Sat

Kill The Software Patents

Patents were invented to foster innovation and protect the investments in R&D against fast followers.

The patent system applied to software is now a hindrance on the innovation process: We need an independent invention defense to minimize the damage of aggressive patent trolls - Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing

Tags: software internet patents entrepreneurship

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Jan
15th

Fri

I’d like to forget it. That’s what goes through my mind. I almost didn’t do this interview because I didn’t want to dig it up again. Let it pass into history.

The Time Warner-AOL merger should pass into history like the Vietnam War and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It’s one of the biggest disasters that have occurred to our country.

I lost 80 percent of my worth and subsequently lost my job. We looked it up to see if I was the biggest loser of all time because I lost about $8 billion. But I don’t think I was the biggest loser of all time. I think at one point Microsoft stock went down more than that for Bill Gates. I think he’s the biggest winner and the biggest loser. I was in the top three or four of all time.

— Ted Turner on AOL-Time Warner deal

Tags: finance entrepreneurship

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