Growing
Create a number of BizDev 1.0 partnerships while simultaneously building and marketing a full service API. If you can do BizDev 1.0 with some number of (ideally high profile) websites and demonstrate that it is valuable to them (ideally quantitatively), you can then scale your service BizDev 2.0 style.
Good bizdev cannibalizes itself cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.A VC: What A CEO Does
Ads won’t save apps
“Most people buy apps based on receiving a recommendation, either directly from word-of-mouth or indirectly by their position in the Charts. There is no way to realistically replace either of these recommendation systems by throwing money at the problem.”
iAd for Developers — Crossforward
This is the legal equivalent of 15” high heels.
At a certain point, copyrights stop protecting innovation and begin protecting profits. “Intellectual property is legalized monopoly,” says James Boyle, a professor at Duke Law School. “And like any monopoly, its tendency is to raise prices and diminish availability.”
Copycats vs Copyrights - Newsweek
Seth’s had enough
“I’ve decided not to publish any more books in the traditional way. 12 for 12 and I’m done. I like the people, but I can’t abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to a store they don’t usually visit to buy something they don’t usually buy, to get them to pay for an idea in a form that’s hard to spread … I really don’t think the process is worth the effort that it now takes to make it work. I can reach 10 or 50 times as many people electronically. No, it’s not ‘better’, but it’s different. So while I’m not sure what format my writing will take, I’m not planning on it being the 1907 version of hardcover publishing any longer.”
Godin to no longer publish books traditionally - GalleyCat
Stay foolish, stay young.
Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That’s why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like “adult supervision.” That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.
Ms. Cholodenko’s film, which she wrote with Stuart Blumberg, is so canny in its insights and so agile in its negotiation of complex emotions that it deserves to stand on its own. It is outrageously funny without ever exaggerating for comic effect, and heartbreaking with only minimal melodramatic embellishment.
(via Movie Review - The Kids Are All Right - Meet the Sperm Donor: Modern Family Ties - NYTimes.com
I haven’t seen any films from the Resident Evil franchise, but I’ve admired their production design.
The internet’s completely over.Prince - world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star’s secret world - mirror.co.uk