Dan Shipton.

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Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don’t ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (via atomstargazer)

Reblogged from Cat Rocketship

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At the beginning of the digital revolution it was common to say that digital was killing music,” said Edgar Berger, chief executive of the international arm of Sony Music Entertainment. Now, he added, it could be said “that digital is saving music.

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Filed under “Duh”

Music Industry Has First Revenue Increase Since 1999 - NYTimes.com

This. One hundred times, this.

Reblogged from Sarah Perez

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But the truth is that, in order to make progress, you need to physically and mentally fight against the momentum of ordinary events. The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the fight against inertia–that matters. You have to remember to go against your instinct, to confront the ordinary, and to put up a fight.

— The Fight | Dustin Curtis

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He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.

— Some advice from Jeff Bezos by Jason Fried of 37signals

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A Kickstarter where every project is guaranteed would be the same safe bets and retreads we see everywhere else. The fact that Kickstarter allows creators to take risks and attempt to create something ambitious is a feature, not a bug.

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Perry

Sums up what is great about all Internet marketplaces.

(via cdixon)

Reblogged from Fred Wilson Dot VC

“Partner” — Twitter’s One-Sided Certified Products Requirements

Guidelines for Being a Good Partner

Make Twitter more valuable to businesses and solve a need that Twitter does not address
Help bring Twitter to new or underserved markets Twitter is a core part of your product and you make use of all applicable APIs and features
Integrations behave as consistently as possible with Twitter’s own products
Encourage meaningful engagement with the Twitter network
You are working on an opportunity with significant impact
Use Twitter Platform products rather than creating similar products

This list of requirements makes it clear that Twitter cares about one thing: itself. This is not how you treat “partners”.

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If you’re worried about being profitable now, you’re not building a big business

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… or preparing to fail spectacularly.

Obvious Corp. Wants its Startups to Build the Next Wikipedia, Not Zynga | PandoDaily

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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

— Steve Jobs

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Everything is buyable as long as you have enough cash.

— Why “just do it” is bullshit by Buster Benson

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