Other people's thoughts

Apr 20

The opposite of Kickstarter

Do all start ups that die, deserve to die? Would you rather invest in an idea or in a start up whose investors have abandoned it but that has already a product? Maybe the latter and that’s why I think it is time that somebody launches the opposite of Kickstarter. A site in which companies that have say one week until they close are auctioned to the best bidder. Maybe there are investors out there who could save them. They could be the real ANGELS. That would be the real ANGEL list :)

Dec 19

“Stephen will officially leave Ryanair on 7th February next, after an extensive round of lunches and dinners with his many friends and admirers in the media, all paid for by the Ryanair press entertainment budget of €3.94.” Gotta love this Ryanair press release

Dec 5

“You rarely hear a startup say, “We failed because we were just too focused on our core business.” Sarah Lacy spot on with regards to Groupon

Oct 22

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust via The invisible grail

Oct 3

“Travel is only useful if you go open to the possibility of surrendering parts of what had formed you in exhchange for the new perspectives offered by difference - if you go out of curiosity and respect. If you enter a place on its own terms. But tourism is travel with its heart ripped out.” Robyn Davidson via The Invisible Grail

Oct 1

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” Gustavo Petro,mayor of Bogota

Sep 19

“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in the pocket.” A rather famous bodybuilder in this video.

Aug 26

“The simple answer is “no”. (The more complex answer is also no, but it takes longer to explain.)” Geoffrey A. Moore in Crossing the Chasm

Aug 20

“If you want to know your past – look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future – look into your present actions.” Chinese proverb via Ralph Metzner

Aug 12

“If we had a time-phone, now in 1987, we would beg you to forgive us. We have burdened you with impossible debts, wasted and polluted the planet that should have been your rich heritage, left you instead a dreadful legacy of ignorance, want, and war.” Jack Williamson in Time Capsule Predictions (1987)