Ernie's Floundering at Home.
I would have loved to have this book 2 years ago, but I'd equally like it now. Given entrepreneurship is about stopping the pain. And sharing it. Another interesting string to the Y'Combinator ethos. Wonder if it will create better long term karmic deal flow.
The Kawasaki Machine sharing from it : "Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) on how he decided whether to tell venture capitalists the real idea he wanted to get funded. “If they passed the litmus test of not rejecting us for the wrong reasons and said, ‘OK, we don’t mind that you’re young, we don’t mind that you don’t have management experience, only when they would start poking holes in the actual idea would we share the Hotmail idea with them."
Dave Winer's mentioning the process of "Reporting" following from Derrick Schneider's comments; Journos vs bloggers who are "no less rigorous, just more distributed". (Derek : "To be pedantic, reporting is just a genre of writing, alongside essays and stories, and blogggers most certainly fall into that genre. When I describe a dinner I ate or a wine I tasted, I’m reporting. When someone else liveblogs a keynote, they’re reporting. A kid writing a letter home about summer camp is reporting. It’s all about relaying information about some topic.")
If blogging (for most doing it) is more a personal expression than most MSM commercially printed matter, Pretty Dumb Things blog, when you compare to the Cosmos and Marie Claires (who would never publish such an honest piece), shows just how raw and human it can be vs prepackaged feature pieces which retail for $2-$15 at your local newsagency.
Pretty Dumb Things : "I also thought that I really didn’t see what could possibly be productive in discussing my writing with Ernie. For a variety of reasons, I feel very adamantly that I’m not going to be bullied into taking down posts, and so that wasn’t even a topic I would consider discussing. Finally, I felt that if people are referring to him as “Ernie” in his presence, the man here known as “Ernie” should take it up with them, not me."
The Kawasaki Machine sharing from it : "Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) on how he decided whether to tell venture capitalists the real idea he wanted to get funded. “If they passed the litmus test of not rejecting us for the wrong reasons and said, ‘OK, we don’t mind that you’re young, we don’t mind that you don’t have management experience, only when they would start poking holes in the actual idea would we share the Hotmail idea with them."
Dave Winer's mentioning the process of "Reporting" following from Derrick Schneider's comments; Journos vs bloggers who are "no less rigorous, just more distributed". (Derek : "To be pedantic, reporting is just a genre of writing, alongside essays and stories, and blogggers most certainly fall into that genre. When I describe a dinner I ate or a wine I tasted, I’m reporting. When someone else liveblogs a keynote, they’re reporting. A kid writing a letter home about summer camp is reporting. It’s all about relaying information about some topic.")
If blogging (for most doing it) is more a personal expression than most MSM commercially printed matter, Pretty Dumb Things blog, when you compare to the Cosmos and Marie Claires (who would never publish such an honest piece), shows just how raw and human it can be vs prepackaged feature pieces which retail for $2-$15 at your local newsagency.
Pretty Dumb Things : "I also thought that I really didn’t see what could possibly be productive in discussing my writing with Ernie. For a variety of reasons, I feel very adamantly that I’m not going to be bullied into taking down posts, and so that wasn’t even a topic I would consider discussing. Finally, I felt that if people are referring to him as “Ernie” in his presence, the man here known as “Ernie” should take it up with them, not me."
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