November 2011
29 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27)
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“General managers submit weekly reports, measuring factors like traffic and customer satisfaction. Every quarter, teams assess their priorities under an Intel-pioneered system called “objectives and key results.” And Mr. Pincus, a professed data obsessive, devours all the reports, using multiple spreadsheets, to carefully track the progress of Zynga’s games and its roughly 3,000 employees.”
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NYTimes.com on Zynga.
Ignore the rest of this article for a moment and just focus on Zynga’s data obsession, an obsession shared by many other start ups and one being adopted by established companies.
Here’s the rub: anything Excel can’t measure, Pincus can’t see.
(via dbreunig)
I see your #Patagoniabrag and raise you a #Patagoniaenvy... How cool that you got to do that! :)
Twas tre cool. I would love to go back some day. Patagonia is probably one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Should I, Like, Get A Spray Tan Before A VC Pitch? →
businessinsider.com
Found this little gem of an article on Business Insider today…
A lot of things cross an entrepreneur’s mind as he or she prepares for a meeting with a VC. Like whether or not to get a spray tan.
One Quora user asked, “Should I use spray-on tanner before a VC pitch in order to seem more relaxed and less needy of financing?”
Most of the 20 responses were brilliantly sarcastic. Others flat out wrote, “No.”
Michael Wolfe of Pipewise received 133 votes for this answer:
“It is sorta a rookie mistake to show up at a VC meeting without at least a spray-on tan.
Read the rest of these hilarious responses on Quora.
The Other Shoe
Fucked Up
The Other Shoe by Fucked Up
I get to see Fucked Up perform “David Comes To Life” in its entirety tonight at the Warsaw. Oh, and Titus Andronicus is on the bill too. I’m a lucky girl!
shared from exfm
