Daily insights for city builders, delivered every morning at 6 AM ET. I’m Brandon Donnelly — a Toronto-based real estate developer and founder of Globizen. I’ve been writing here since 2013.
An important problem in a market economy, and the one the VC attempts to solve, occurs when an entrepreneur has a good idea, but no money, while investors have money, but no good ideas.
Steven N. Kaplan & and Josh Lerner. “It Ain’t Broke: The Past, Present, and Future of Venture Capital”
Great businesses usually start off being a little contrarian. In the first few years, people will scratch their heads and won’t understand what the business is or how it will be successful. Then a few years later, they will start to understand. Being an entrepreneur means you want to be contrarian and right. If you’re the 50th daily deals site, you won’t succeed. It’s not contrarian (it’s trendy), and you’ll likely end up being wrong.
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JEUDI Records RadioShow – April 2013 – Mixed by Doctor Dru
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Freud’s theory explains that we tend to reserve our most virulent emotions—aggression, hatred, envy—toward those who resemble us the most. We feel threatened not by the “other” with whom we have little in common, but by the “nearly-we,” who mirror and reflect us.
Sivan Cohen (Fast Company) on why everybody hates on content marketers
House W by 01Arq
Elegant detail where the sliding doors extend to the roof line beyond the ceiling, resulting in a minimal box without the appearance of a bulky top.
James Beard’s Hero: Capicola, Mortadella, Prosciutto, Salami, Provolone, Hot Peppers, On an Italian Hero. See it on display at The James Beard House through December 2012
The reason is that innovation is the most difficult core competency to build in any business. Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative idea as stupid, because if it was a good idea, somebody would have already done it. So, the innovator is guaranteed to have more natural initial detractors than followers.
Ben Horowitz of A16Z
Excavation underway at the 12 Degrees condo (Queen St W & Beverley St)
