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.
Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works…. What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data.
Newsweek from the 90s via Chris Dixon
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the one who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
People say startups are risky, but for me, working at a job my entire life seemed like the worst possible outcome, so starting a company was the least risky thing I could do. I think that’s what people mean when they talk about founders being a little crazy. I realize this is an unusual personality trait.
Arram Sabeti
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.
anyone know who made these?Cyprien Bellens
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.
