mai 2012
7 billets
“Many promising tech companies place too much emphasis too soon on the business...”
– The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man
Lire la vidéoUnderstanding Your Revenue Profit & Cost Structure by Will Bunker (07/06/10) (by Founder Institute)
avril 2012
5 billets
Lire la vidéoGreat talk about disruption by the Internet.
If you flow with the stream of disruption (ie. be Internet native : global, instant, free on the margin, ubiquitous, connected) you’ll survive and thrive. If not, you’re doomed.
Adapt. Now.
2011/10 Albert Wenger (by CreativeMornings)
“Finalement, pour revenir à Camus, en l’ouvrant au hasard, je suis tombé...”
– Attaque frontale | Pierre Foglia
mars 2012
16 billets
Lire la vidéoBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
“If at first you don’t succeed, hide all evidence you have tried!” - Billy Collins
“When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don’t have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.” — Billy Collins
“[One of my students said],...
Lire la vidéoTaylor Wilson (17 years old) : Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
The Boy Who Played With Fusion
“Before 2008, this was simply the complaint of one businessman, railing against...”
– James Dyson reinvented the vacuum. Now he wants to remake the economy - The Globe and Mail
“Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I...”
– writing is an addiction.
Ray Bradbury on doing what you love (via explore-blog)
“Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live...”
– Pass the Books. Hold the Oil. - NYTimes.com
février 2012
19 billets
Warren Buffet : The Basic Choices for Investors...
Tiré de la lettre annuelle aux actionnaires 2011
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf
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Investing is often described as the process of laying out money now in the expectation of receiving more money in the future. At Berkshire we take a more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving...
“A good insurance underwriter needs an independent mindset akin to that of the...”
– Warren Buffet 2011 Annual Letter to Shareholders
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf
Lire la vidéoA talk about online community building and cultural anthropology by Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow
(via HN London)
In Motion by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross shared...
Lire la vidéoPaley Center: Protecting Content & Promoting Innovation
In the wake of the uproar among the technology and entertainment industries over the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA), the search for common ground and a way forward is more urgent than ever. Join NBCUniversal’s Richard Cotton and Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson for an open...
Lire la vidéoDaniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
Lire la vidéoShawn Achor: The happy secret to better work on TED
The Umbrella Man →
The Umbrella Man Un Powerpoint que j’ai monté pour un cours d’anglais. Une adaptation du documentaire du même nom par Errol Morris. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/11/21/opinion/100000001183275/the-umbrella-man.html
“Dina got her PhD at MIT’s Sloan School a decade ago, before she started...”
– A VC: Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
janvier 2012
7 billets
No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z and Kanye West...
“In part, Asia was attractive because the semiskilled workers there were cheaper....”
– Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com