January 2011
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WatchThis parody of product placement on MTV on SNL nailed it!
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Friending Social Change
It’s been another historic week in terms of world politics. Earlier this week, Egyptians took to the street protesting their oppressive government. The Egyptian government has gone out of their way to dissuade and quell the protesters, going so far as to turn off internet access, but it looks like the government is on its last legs.
What’s interesting to me are the tools that are...
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WatchMark on Mark. Awkward exchange on SNL between the real Mark Z and the actor Jesse Eisenberg who plays Mark Z in ‘the social network’
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““I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars / they criticize me for it;...”
– This is in Moment of Clarity by Jay-Z and probably one of my favorite lines in all of hip/hop because of how well it applies in business and life.
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It's All About the Mousetrap
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to get MASSIVE amounts of traffic to a website - and by MASSIVE, I’m talking Facebook type traffic (compete.com recently has Facebook logging nearly 145 million unique visitors a month). The only conclusion I can come can to is that it’s not about marketing, it’s about the product.
There’s a...
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Bursting the Bubble Talk
Late last year the B word (bubble) began slipping back into the lexicon here in Silicon Valley. Lots of companies were getting funded earlier than they normally do, start-ups were once again throwing lavish holiday parties and a little company called Groupon had the gall to turn down a reported $6 Billion from Google. I even implied my belief in a bubble with this tweet:
It’s not just...
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Hating the Fat Cats
In the depths of the financial crisis that started in 2008 (my comments as it happened here and here), specifically in September and October of that month, it was hard for me to imagine how our country was going to emerge without seeing the returns of breadlines, an unemployment rate of greater than 30%, non-functioning ATMs and quite possibly anarchy the likes of which this country has never...
WatchThis is dope. brycedotvc:
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Jay Z as both an artist and an entrepreneur. He’s built a genere defining career around reflecting on his life and teasing out stories that frighten, warn and inspire others on their own journey. This Oprah Master Class is Jay Z at his best- the outsider who wasn’t supposed to amount to much but has risen further than he ever...