February 2012
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Natural Selection of Brick & Mortars
All around the internet you can hear the cries of how brick and mortar stores are slowly dying. We have seen a few of these deaths already. CompUSA, Borders, and Circuit City have recently passed away. Best Buy, has been reported to be one of the next to pass and we’ve heard rumors of Barnes & Noble possibly amputating its brick and mortar and spinning out its digital branch into a...
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BRYCE DOT VC: Talk to Us About Your Problems →
brycedotvc:
Before lean startups there was lean manufacturing. And Toyota was the laboratory where many of these lean principles were tested for the first time at scale.
So, I’ve been reading up on some of the first hand experiences that came from that formative time that these lean principles were being implemented. In doing so, I came across an exchange between a Toyota manager, James...
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“Games need to become a project-based ecosystem rather than a company-based...”
– Jamin Warren - http://killscreendaily.com/articles/fund-razing
“It’s really hard for charity and art to sit side-by-side. So if you’re saving...”
– Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter (via beautyinbreakdown)
Matter Anti-Matter: A Lesson in Compromise from... →
ensignau:
Recently, Pinterest was asked by officials from Mitt Romney’s campaign to change the name on the account of a user who had created a satirical board poking fun at Romney’s, how shall we say, epicurean tastes.
While it’s clear the Pinterest team appreciated the commentary and creativity…
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Kickstarter & Records
The fundraising record on Kickstarter could very well be broken within 65 hours. The Elevation Dock is only a couple tens of thousands dollars away from breaking the $970,000 record set by LunaTik (interestingly enough also an Apple product project). Now, a few short hours after reading a post on how the funding record might be broken this month on Kickstarter a new project emerges - Double Fine...