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Squashed: We are the 99 Percent
Squashed: We are the 99 Percent
‘Financial struggles are isolating. We don’t talk about them—so we don’t realize how universal they are. And because we careful ignore them, we don’t give them a high priority. We worry about airport security. Or a celebrity scandal. Or something Newt Gingrich (who’s still there) said. We don’t communally address the problems that may be most important to us.’
·squashed.tumblr.com·
Squashed: We are the 99 Percent
Vulture: Nitsuh: Watch the Throne: Uneasy Heads Wear Gaudy Crowns
Vulture: Nitsuh: Watch the Throne: Uneasy Heads Wear Gaudy Crowns
“It’s a portrait of two black men thinking through the idea of success in America; what happens when your view of yourself as a suppressed, striving underdog has to give way to the admission that you’ve succeeded about as much as it’s worth bothering with; and how much your victory can really relate to (or feel like it’s on behalf of) your onetime peers who haven’t got a shred of what you’ve won. It’s not a topic that deserves to be scrubbed up, either; there are things about Kanye’s tiresome self-involvement and moody debauchery — the way he sounds like some sullen hip-hop emperor, stalking around the crumbling gilded palace of his own psyche, muttering angrily and getting aggressive with the help — that belong in any such portrait.”
·nymag.com·
Vulture: Nitsuh: Watch the Throne: Uneasy Heads Wear Gaudy Crowns
Anil Dash: Funding a Startup Without VC
Anil Dash: Funding a Startup Without VC
“I love entrepreneurship, and I love tech startups, but sometimes I'm struck by the lack of perspective that many tech entrepreneurs have about creating a startup. One of the most common things that entrepreneurs in the tech sector lose sight of is that most companies never get venture capital funding, especially outside of the technology world. That's not to say that VC hasn't played an important rule in the growth of many of the biggest and best companies, sites and apps. It's just not the only option.”
·dashes.com·
Anil Dash: Funding a Startup Without VC
Bryan Boyer: etc: Please In My Back Yard
Bryan Boyer: etc: Please In My Back Yard
“Using a database of vacant real estate in a given city and a platform for collecting propositions or pitches, we allow entrepreneurs a marketplace of ideas that is able to match their own predilections and interests with ‘please in my back yard’ [rather than NIMBY] demand. Individuals vote on the future land use and spatial assets that they want to see in their own city and their own backyard. If that voting is done with the wallet, similar to Kickstarter, would it be enough to usefully bootstrap entrepreneurs?”
·etc.ofthiswearesure.com·
Bryan Boyer: etc: Please In My Back Yard
Keynote Index Fund
Keynote Index Fund
"Steve Jobs gives a legendary keynote at Macworld SF every January, launching products and giving a state of the union view of things at Apple. What if you invested $10,000 the day before the keynote, then sold at the end of the keynote day?"
·keynoteindexfund.com·
Keynote Index Fund
Consumerist: How To: 13-Step Method for Buying a Car While Controlling the Sale and the Price
Consumerist: How To: 13-Step Method for Buying a Car While Controlling the Sale and the Price
It takes time and a lot of guts, but you'll save money. "It really works... but it works only if you truly are willing to walk away... and then refuse to bend when they try to put you off or change the terms. Stay civil, do not let any emotion in."
·consumerist.com·
Consumerist: How To: 13-Step Method for Buying a Car While Controlling the Sale and the Price