By Fred on February 22, 2009
Tom Friedman, who I admire in many ways, has an op-ed piece in today’s NY Times where he suggests that the US government take the bailout money they are thinking of giving to the auto industry and instead give it to the top venture capital firms.
You want to spend $20 billion of taxpayer money creating jobs? Fine.
Call up the top 20 venture capital firms in America, which are short of
cash today because their partners — university endowments and pension
funds — are tapped out, and make them this offer: The U.S. Treasury
will give you each up to $1 billion to fund the best venture capital
ideas that have come your way. If they go bust, we all lose. If any of
them turns out to be the next Microsoft or Intel, taxpayers will give
you 20 percent of the investors’ upside and keep 80 percent for
themselves.
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By Script_And_Style on February 21, 2009
Behind most successful websites there is usually an eye-appealing and user-friendly design, but behind all successful websites is well constructed SEO. Learn how to make your WordPress themes SEO friendly in this simple post.
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By Seth Godin on February 21, 2009
That’s the way Derek Sivers (founder of CDBaby) described his mission statement in building the company. “What could I build that would be a like a dream come true for independent musicians?”
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By Seth Godin on February 20, 2009
Do you deserve the luck you’ve been handed? The place you were born, the education you were given, the job you’ve got? Do you deserve your tribe, your customer base, your brand?
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By Alexander Muse on February 19, 2009
Rule No. 1: Release the first version of your mobile application within 30 days.
I know quite a few developers working on mobile applications and many of them have been ‘working’ on their mobile applications for 6-9-12 months. I know a number of companies that have been ‘working on their mobile applications for 12-24 months. If your application is so complex it is taking more than 30 days to release the first version you might want to rethink your application. If you hire a developer and he needs more than 30 days to release the first version of your application hire someone else.
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By Heather on February 19, 2009
You asked, and we listened. Introducing threaded comments, comment paging, and comment order settings for your WordPress.com blog.
Go to Settings > Discussion in your dashboard, and you’ll discover three new options in the “Other comments settings” section:
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