Andrew Weissman

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    • Jan 30
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    » Venture Innovation, or why the First Round Capital Entrepreneur's Exchange fund is good

    There is an amazing wealth of innovation around early stage venture financing, most of which developed in just the past few years.

    There are new models of creating companies out of innovation: …

    Dec 03
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    » You Can't Make Word of Mouth Viral

    “Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning…and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. That’s why we often see good products with poor …

    Oct 19
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    » I Want To Be A Platform

    We all want to create or invest in platform businesses - those that enable other businesses or participants to add features, content, build other things into/onto the platform, extract associated but…

    Sep 21
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    » No Business Developement (or, Hackable Business Development)

    We have a saying at betaworks - “no business development allowed.”

    Of course, it’s tongue in check and we don’t really mean it (well, maybe we do), but it represents the application of one of…

    Mar 26
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    “ If it is not connected, connect it. As a first step, every employee of an institution should have intimate, easy, continuous access to the institution’s medium of choice—email, voicemail, radio, whatever. The benefits of communication often don’t kick in until ubiquity is approached; aim for ubiquity. Every step that promotes cheap, rampant, and universal connection is a step in the right direction.
    — New Rules for the New Economy (via kortina)
    Dec 31
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    » Things to Do

    Kortina implored me to do resolutions, like him, instead I will just write down what I want to do more of next year:

    1. Help spread the joy of Tipjoy. Of course I am hopelessly biased and…

    Oct 12
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    » Wwoof (ebay for farming) and others

    Latest things I am tracking:

    WWOOF - world wide opportunities on organic farms - ebay for farming - “WWOOF is an exchange - In return for volunteer help, WWOOF hosts offer food,…

    Sep 30
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    » Random

    CDARS - “When you place a large deposit with a network member, that institution uses CDARS to place your funds into certificates of deposit issued by banks in the network. This occurs in…

    Aug 18
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    » Latest batch

    What is the song of the summer? (via mediaeater)

    songmeanings.net and lyricwiki - total repeat usage on these

    Very Loud - b/c it needs to be louder, sometimes

    Backtype -…

    Aug 05
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    » A few more things

    Whuffie

    drop.io - “simple private sharing”

    twistori “wish” (I want this as a screen saver)

    WTF is Twitter

    Play Crafter “a place where you can easily play, make and share games”