Mark Ury_You are what you share

Growing

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:45:21 -0400

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..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:48:46 -0400

“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

rafer: (via fuckyeahdementia)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:25:38 -0400

rafer:

(via fuckyeahdementia)

Ads won't save apps

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:24:59 -0400

“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.

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:51:00 -0400

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

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:19:00 -0400

“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.

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:43:19 -0400

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.

What Happened to Yahoo

Ms. Cholodenko’s film, which she wrote with Stuart Blumberg, is...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:12:00 -0400

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,...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:55:25 -0400

I haven’t seen any films from the Resident Evil franchise, but I’ve admired their production design.

"The internet’s completely over."

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:18:54 -0400

““The internet’s completely over.””

- Prince - world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star’s secret world - mirror.co.uk

Djerba - David Lebovitz

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:36:56 -0400

Djerba - David Lebovitz

A Cartoon—By Mr. Fish (Harper’s Magazine)

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:57:13 -0400

A Cartoon—By Mr. Fish (Harper’s Magazine)

#G20, Toronto

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:07:16 -0400

#G20, Toronto

Collective Nouns Illustrated

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:10:58 -0400

Collective Nouns Illustrated

Literary Edinburgh | Books | guardian.co.uk

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:40:15 -0400

Literary Edinburgh | Books | guardian.co.uk

Couldn’t resist. I’m sure the films are different. I...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:36:19 -0400

Couldn’t resist. I’m sure the films are different. I mean, one has a worn-out actor living in a hotel confronted by the spirit of a younger woman.

Watching the trailer for Sophia Coppola’s Somewhere, three...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:33:00 -0400

Watching the trailer for Sophia Coppola’s Somewhere, three things are apparent: Focus Features feels Marie Antoinette was a big enough failure that they need to plaster the trailer and trailer site with reminders about Lost in Translation and her Academy award; she continues to plumb her childhood and celebrity, which is where she has been most rewarded (LiT) and scorned (MA); and the trailer sums up the feeling of the film almost perfectly, which is to say that eventually watching the film won’t feel much different.

One surprise: this wasn’t shot by her DP Lance Accord (who she seems to share with her ex Spike Jonze the same way divorced parents share custody of their kid). Instead, Harris Savides is behind the camera. His images don’t seem as fleeting as Accord’s or shine as bright (Accord is probably the best natural camera DP on the planet right now), but they’re beautiful nonetheless. His most recent work was Greenberg. He also shot Rachel Getting Married, the 28 Days Later of family relationships and a big fave of mine.

"It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m famous. I am on..."

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:09:36 -0400

“It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I’m in your signs. I’m in your browsers. I’m in your instant messengers. I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.”

- Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

Paul Dano is the new Bud Cort. Or the non-singing Win Butler. Or...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:44:12 -0400

Paul Dano is the new Bud Cort. Or the non-singing Win Butler. Or perhaps Bud Cort is all three of them. Nevertheless.

Mr Toledano : Days with my father

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:50:03 -0400

Mr Toledano : Days with my father