The disruptive designs of Made.com
A new London-based designer furniture business has attracted funding from some of the UK’s leading internet entrepreneurs with its vision of selling stylish goods at cut-rate prices. (via Reuters)
Heard at a meeting with a very well known CEO today “if you get fucked, do it in silence
Loic Le Meur (via)
I never play against others, always for myself.
Stefan Raab (entertainer, song writer, musician, comedian and disruptive entrepreneur in every category) answering a question related to competition. (via)
Check out Loopt’s foursquare knock-off. Points for checkins and “boss” instead of “mayor”.:Not to be a hater, but if I was going to create a foursquare knockoff, I’d use game mechanics and create something *totally different* (e.g. the “Points 2.0” stuff we’re cooking up now @ foursquare HQ).
Why would you ever just clone someone else’s work? Learn from it and innovate on top! That’s how we all push this space forward!
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Charles Revson (Co-Founder of the Revlon Empire 1932) once said; If you have to copy, then copy it in a way that nobody notice it.
@dpstyles - You should use your energy to kick-ass, and not to moan. You only help your competition when you speak about them. Speak about your company and your product, how fast you are moving. Did Bill moan about Linux or Macintosh? No! He spoke always about how great his products are and his vision and mission. He only spoke about competition when asked by journalists and pundits.
When you copy something, then copy it in a way that nobody notice it.
Charles Revson, Co-Founder of Revlon (founded in 1932 with $300) (via Spiegel.de)
Working draft of a new site called Campus Bar Brawl. Restaurant/Bars and Nightclubs around US college campuses post special offers up to 30 days in advance. The top voted deal of that day gets sent out to anyone opted in for that day specifically at 7pm that day.
More to come…
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Vertical for Groupon (Group/Coupon Deals).
Why haven’t I thought about this one? Damn. Lets got copy cats. E-commerce is lucrative, if you have only 5% of this market, you could make a nice living. But don’t expect any great exit or venture capital (angel/seed/round a) funding. It’s too niche, no break out potential.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch. (Ancient Greek Biographer and Author, 46-119) (via)
Congratulations on pulling off an amazing show. Don’t tell anyone … but when ‘Star Wars’ first came out, I didn’t know where it was going either. The trick is to pretend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance. Throw in some father issues and references to other stories — let’s call them homages — and you’ve got a series.
George Lucas, in a letter of congratulations (?) to Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
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(via thedailywhat)
“I didn’t know where it was going either. The trick is to pretend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance.”
Got Entrepreneurial soft skills?
Competition that kills isn’t pre-announced — it springs from the shadows hungry and angry on an unsuspecting incumbent.
Diaspora’s curse - (37signals) (via hiten) (via mikehudack) (via ericmortensen)
Changing ourselves is much better than being changed by the industry, and all the announcements today are meant to make AOL faster, better and stronger. I will leave you with a favorite quote of mine, and one that speaks to “Beat the Internet”:
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” - Muhammad Ali
Tim Armstrong, Aol. (via)
