April 2013
1 post
The opposite of Kickstarter
martinvarsavsky:
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...
December 2012
2 posts
“Stephen will officially leave Ryanair on 7th February next, after an extensive...”
– Gotta love this Ryanair press release
“You rarely hear a startup say, “We failed because we were just too focused on...”
– Sarah Lacy spot on with regards to Groupon
October 2012
3 posts
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust via The invisible grail
“Travel is only useful if you go open to the possibility of surrendering parts of...”
– Robyn Davidson via The Invisible Grail
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where...”
– Gustavo Petro,mayor of Bogota
September 2012
1 post
“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in the pocket.”
– A rather famous bodybuilder in this video.
August 2012
3 posts
“The simple answer is “no”. (The more complex answer is also no, but...”
– Geoffrey A. Moore in Crossing the Chasm
“If you want to know your past – look into your present conditions. If you want...”
– Chinese proverb via Ralph Metzner
“If we had a time-phone, now in 1987, we would beg you to forgive us. We have...”
– Jack Williamson in Time Capsule Predictions (1987)
July 2012
1 post
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is...”
– Iris Murdoch
June 2012
1 post
“It’s better to be safe than sorry” is such crap. You know...”
– Jeff Atwood on Slideshare
May 2012
1 post
“Over time, all marketing strategies result in shitty clickthrough rates.”
– The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs by Andrew Chen
April 2012
1 post
“More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...”
– Woody Allen (his Complete Prose is great)
March 2012
3 posts
“One Millwall fan was shocked at the time. He went to see a fight and a football...”
– From the brilliant essay about martial arts by David Weeks
Success is like being pregnant. Everybody...
January 2012
3 posts
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase,...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you know Apple, use it. If you know Vista, ask yourself why, then use it.”
– Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups
“The milkman is dead, but we drink more milk than ever.”
– Baratunde Thurston in Fast Company’s article on Generation Flux
December 2011
3 posts
“If you want to be Mark Zuckerberg, the best you’re ever going to be is...”
– Ashton Kutcher in Startup School
“That was the day I lost my religion. That was the day I found my faith.”
– Sanjuro instructor Glenn Delikan in Conversations with the Devil
“Hi. This is LOuie. It seriously is me. Im even going to leave the O stuipdly...”
– Louis CK starts his email to people that bought his new film
October 2011
3 posts
“..in richer and in poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to...”
– Katrin’s words have an edge
“You can’t do extraordinary things, by attempting ordinary things.”
– My entrepreneur hero Vinod Khosla in an interview
September 2011
2 posts
“The truth is, nobody can see the truth anymore.”
– Paul Bucheit on being nothing
“Once you are free you’re forced to ask who you are.”
– Anon (picked up from Burning Man)
August 2011
1 post
“When you write a poem, you don’t always know what’s provoking it...”
– Simon Armitage’s words mediated by Miranda Sawyer in the Observer column
July 2011
1 post
“Kaotada võib ainult seda, mille sa nagunii kaotaksid.”
– Maris Heinaru reisimisest, otsimisest ja leidmisest
June 2011
2 posts
“Good Judgment Comes with Experience, But Experience Comes from Bad Judgment”
– Mark Suster mediating someone’s words in the context of making startup mistakes
“Character is built when no one is watching.”
– John Wooden
April 2011
1 post
“Open-source facial recognition is relatively advanced while other-body-part...”
– A startup fighting porn spam problem in video chats
March 2011
1 post
“Japan has always been a country living simoltaneously in the both the future and...”
– John Oliver on episode 147 of The Bugle
February 2011
3 posts
“Every big idea that works grew out of a small idea that worked.”
– Dan Gould interviewed by IdeaMensch
“Me oleme nii ennast täis, et ise ka ei mahu eneste sisse ära.”
– Tõnu Oja intervjuu EPL-le
Rough translation: we are so foll of ourselves we don’t even fit into ourselves.
“LubePanda is great for improving sex between people and between pandas. We do...”
– LubePanda launched
January 2011
7 posts
“On the far right, you have the many dudes who think Megan Fox is the sexiest...”
– Christian Rudder on OK Cupid’s blog on the mathematics of beauty
“There’s no 12 step program for this”
– Slogan of The Lingerie Addict
“Tegelikult võiks Veerpaluga reklaamid Kuldmunal omaette kategoorias olla.”
– Ahto Aaremäe Best Marketingis
“You weren’t supposed to come to this page. Continue to buy stuff, or The...”
– Error message on the Onion store
“Thank you god… for making me an atheist!”
– Ricky Cervais at Golden Globe awards
“The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment...”
– Achilles in Troy
November 2010
4 posts
“Look closer and closer and look further and further and listen harder and harder...”
– Rob Ryan on one of his works, on display in Air Gallery until November 20th.
“GB: Whilst you are on here would you like to explain why you & your party...”
– A twitter user asks a question from Gordon Brown (or his wife)
“I have adopted a new — if I may say, “zen” — approach to...”
– Sten Tamkivi’s work email autoreply.
“Do not run after money. You will find that money runs faster than you do.”
– Attique Rabbani in a letter to his daughter
October 2010
5 posts
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol,...”
– Carl Jung quoted in The Power Of Full Engagement
“Exception: sometimes, repetition of the same thing can be surprising. For an...”
– From Groupon writers’ style guide. Pure brilliancy. 