“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
“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
“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
“Twitter’s homepage is a work-in-progress. Today, we’re testing a new design that bubbles up more of the information flowing through Twitter.”
Twitter design chief Doug Bowman, on the tricky process of transforming the world’s biggest oversharing network into something that venture capitalists might overpay for, Twitter Blog, 30 March 2010
“Ultimately they made the choice to anthropomorphize the hardware platform to a human being.”
Microsoft chief marketing strategist David Webster, demonstrating that the quest to humanize Microsoft’s image begins very close to home indeed, CNET News, 29 March 2010
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