Cool Slideshow on Creative Biz Models
10 business models that rocked 2010 – by @nickdemey (boardofinnovation.com) View more presentations from Board of Innovation (BOI).
The Most Important Marketing Metric for B2B Startups
In one word, it’s REVENUE. How are your marketing dollars being turned into real world revenue and profit. This is why I think it is so important to have a “Growth Hacker” on your team. I think I’m borrowing this term from Sean Ellis.. in fact I know I am. In the growth phase of a startup, its essential that you have a person on your marketing team that is wiling to get his hands dirty, test ideas, fail and iterate. They should be metrics driven with an intense focus... Read The Rest →
The Ideal Web Tech Team
Found this interesting thread on Quora. Every entrepreneur should read it. Took me about an hour to get through it all. http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-would-the-ideal-web-technology-start-up-team-be-composed-of Here’s an exerpt The best way for me to clarify my point is to say there are A, B, & C players. A startup with C players in any function has issues and should get right of that person. The question here is where do you have to have A players and where can get by with B players that are good, committed, deliver but are not rockstars?... Read The Rest →
Watch This Sh*t Now
INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo. Now how do we apply this stuff to mindfulness.
Be Mindful. Bitches
Im not a Buddhist. I just look and act like one. “Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one’s own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind. Religion has much involvement with faith. Sometimes it seems that there is quite a distance between a way of thinking based on faith and one entirely based on experiment, remaining skeptical. Unless you find something through investigation, you do... Read The Rest →
New Way To Think About Machine Learning
Jeff Hawkins is an entrepreneur that I really admire. He started out as an electrical engineer and built a number of portable handheld device companies including Palm.. you might have heard of it. He even built one of the first tablet computers. From there he founded an organization on Theoretical Neuroscience. Jeff Hawkins presents the new HTM Cortical Learning algorithms at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk is technical in nature and complements the written document “Hierarchical Temporal Memory including HTM Cortical Learning Algorithms”. Watch his... Read The Rest →
Winter Reading List
Mindsight Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Les Miserables East of Eden Into Thin Air Emotional Intelligence Atheist Buddhist Wealth of Nations Snowball Confederacy of Dunces Mousedriver Chronicles Fabric of Cosmos Brief History of Time Buddha’s Brain How We Decide Brave New World Contemplative Science Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Scalability
You should have scalability in the back of your mind anytime you do a web project. Here’s a cool intro to scalability for websites on the LAMP stack. Watch it on Academic Earth
Stanford Engineering Open Classroom!
When I was learning to program not too long ago, the MIT Opencourse Program was incredibly helpful in learning the basics of code. Although I most of what I learned about hacking came through actually building cool applications and contributing to opensource projects it was good to have a understanding of the underlying theory. Stanford has a similar program with it’s engineering school. There are some really cool topics for people who want an introduction Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and even Iphone Application development. I may be doing the Machine... Read The Rest →
