The reality is ideas don’t matter that much. First of all, in almost all startups, the idea changes – often dramatically – over time. Secondly, ideas are relatively abundant. For every decent idea there are very likely other people who’ve also thought of it, and, surprisingly often, are also actively pitching investors. At an early stage, ideas matter less for their own sake and more insofar as they reflect the creativity and thoughtfulness of the team.
What you should really be focused on when pitching your early stage startup is pitching yourself and your team. When you do this, remember that a startup is primarily about building something. Hence the most important aspect of your backgrounds is not the names of the schools you attended or companies you worked at – it’s what you’ve built. This could mean coding a video game, creating a non-profit organization, designing a website, writing a book, bootstrapping a company – whatever. The story you should tell is the story of someone who has been building stuff her whole life and now just needs some capital to take it to the next level.
via cdixon.org via www.businessinsider.com
I'm really enjoying his blog lately.
I asked her why Nanofarming was an art project rather than a science experiment. ”Nanofarming is both an art and a science. What artists bring to the dialogue is a visualization of the impossible. That’s not what most scientists do. Maybe physicists.”
via thegreenest.net
Really nice article in a new blog called The Greenest, about my wife Bryony's "nanofarm" installation at The Old Stone House Park in Park Slope. Tonight we will be eating the mustard greens that were growing on one of the lampposts.
Q. Sixty years later it seems you see a lot of each other now.
REINER Yeah, we got that big screen [gestures to incredibly large flat-screen monitor] to look at television.
Q. So you come here, Mel, and you watch TV together?
BROOKS Almost every night. He’s got a wonderful housekeeper-cook and we decide on a menu and a movie.
Q. What did you watch most recently?
BROOKS We watched last night “The Peacemaker.” With Nicole Kidman and, come on. [He gestures to Mr. Reiner.]
REINER George Clooney.
BROOKS Right. It was two and a half stars at the most. Good performances, very silly, you know.
REINER We look for movies with the line “Secure the perimeter.”
BROOKS Yeah, we like movies that say, “Secure the perimeter” and/or “You better get some rest.”
REINER “Lock all doors!”
BROOKS “I want a five-block seal!”
Q. What’s the key to 60 years of friendship?
REINER Our wives liked each other.
via www.nytimes.com
I LOVE the 2,000 year old man records and have nice memories of listening to them with my father when I was a kid. This NYT interview with Brooks and Reiner along with its audio clips just made me smile. It is also worth reading because in a more serious vein it touches on the nature of the Jewish experience in the 1950's when a "...a Jewish accent was not always a good thing."
"Wherer (sic) my IHOP"
Translated by the ever helpful slang experts at the NYT into "Where's my pancakes" A tee-shirt in the making? An auto-tune?
via www.nytimes.com
Wow what a nice deal for the developer and destroyer of Astroland. He gets to unload land that he can't develop for a great price. Then he gets to reap the benefit of the city improving the land he sold to make hos land more valuable. What a scam and a sham.
via daddytypes.com
So blogs get made into books and then maybe evolve into movies ie Julie & Julia but Tweets go straight to TV maybe it is easier to convert 140 characters into sitcoms.
The Coop tees got a tremendously nice compliment from the genius snarkmeisters of Fucked In the Slope. I love their blog though I am a stroller pushing coopretard and for now (probably until they read this) they are my new blog bffs too. I think the Suspended at The COOP line could break out. I've added some kids sizes and a tote bag.
