“It is clear that you can build large businesses on top of a social platform like Facebook and Twitter.”
Twitter investor Fred Wilson, on why his company is about to stab a bunch of small businesses built on Twitter in the back, A VC, 7 April 2010
Month: April 2010
DOES REPUTATION COME WITH A “BUY IT NOW” PRICE?
“By the end of this decade, power and influence will shift largely to those people with the best reputations and trust networks, from people with money and nominal power.”
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, on how the millions of dollars he took from eBay, not to mention his efforts to hide that fact, will make him less trustworthy in the future, Cnewmark.com, 6 April 2010
DON’T RETRIEVE THE HYPE
“New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Entreprenerd and angel investor Chris Dixon, preaching what he doesn’t practice at his massively overfunded and overhyped startup Hunch, Twitter via Business Insider, 6 April 2010
AND ALL THE GEEKS ARE ABOVE AVERAGE
“This is not about empowering people to give an F minus. It’s about creating an environment that’s safe to give a B plus.”
Unvarnished cofounder Pete Kazanjy, on how his widely if unfairly despised people-reviews site is perfect for Silicon Valley’s endless ranks of underoverachievers, ABCNews.com, 2 April 2010
DIGITAL MEDIA: IT’S ALL ABOUT ZEROES
“Traditional media is blowing it. It doesn’t understand what digital really is. Traditional media isn’t going to invest in online media. That’s why I think there’s a wide open area here.”
Former Fast Company and BusinessWeek.com editor John Byrne, a noted authority in traditional media not understanding digital, on his new C-Change website, WebNewser, 31 March 2010
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