Web guru Dave Winer said:
… Read the restWhen I needed heart surgery in 2002 and the doctor told me my life was over if I didn’t get it, you might say he was being insensitive, but he was telling me something that I knew was true that I needed to hear. Three days later after the surgery, recouperating, the surgeon told me if I resumed smoking I would be dead in three years.
Good quote (thanks VCMike) on passion from Spencer E. Ante’s BusinessWeek analysis titled Startups in a Downturn:
… Read the restTalk to the entrepreneurs who built great companies during bad times, and they’ll tell you there are a number of lessons that help explain their success.
When I joined upstart Clickable in 2007, I said that passion and innovation were among the core reasons for my move. I was part of one amazing team (BuzzMetrics) that made a meaningful impact and was acquired by Nielsen, and I was ready to do it again with another amazing band.… Read the rest
I recently video interviewed Frank Rose, contributing editor at Wired, following a discussion he led at Clickable. Frank spent the past decade writing about the changes digital technology has wrought on media and entertainment. He started out covering the Lower Manhattan punk scene of the ’70s for The Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Talking Heads.… Read the rest
Why can’t governments operate more like businesses? In a twist of fate, the White House now is demonstrating how businesses should operate. Including online.
This was evidenced, perhaps more than anywhere else, at 12:01 p.m. during the Presidential inauguration, at www.whitehouse.gov/blog… Read the rest
