Posts Tagged ‘A VC’

Hindsight Links for Apr 29, 6:00 am

// April 29th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Thaylor, Mike Giles @ Cool Hunting:
    Montreal’s newest online hub connects the creative community with well-designed wares, from sneakers and wallets to speakers and pocketknives. Like so many digital shopping destinations, Thaylor’s web-based shop doubles as an editorial platform, keeping inspiration fresh no matter the season. Updated regularly, “Life” showcases the thoughts of talented athletes,…
  • Paper Weaving Card Set, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    Sending someone special a card may seem gracious enough these days, but Present & Correct’s latest Paper Weaving Card Set really ups the charm with easy tools for constructing a personalized pattern in addition to undoubtedly endearing messages. The four-pack includes two “Happy Birthday” and one each of “Thank…
  • How Stress Can Improve Your Performance, Justin Menkes @ HBR.org:
    Recently, I read an article in which a developmental psychologist cited a mountain of evidence showing that IQ was one…
  • Understand Your Customers With Colored Pencils and Cartoons, Eddie Yoon @ HBR.org:
    This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization. Some CEOs truly crave direct customer contact. Apple’s Steve Jobs and…
  • Finding And Buying A Domain Name, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I believe that a good domain name is an important success factor in building and launching consumer web services. It’s not in my top ten but it could be. It’s certainly something we think about a lot when making investments…

Hindsight Links for Apr 8, 6:00 am

// April 8th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • M?ori designed, developed and delivered initiatives to reduce M?ori offending and re-offending, A Zammit @ APO.org:
    Early evaluations of M?ori designed, developed and delivered initiatives to reduce crime have shown promising results. Justice read more
  • Urban water in Australia: future directions, P Aitken @ APO.org:
    Calling Australian governments to consider new directions to reinvigorate the way we manage water in our cities and towns, this report aims to encourage discussion and provide a platform for change. Social Policy read more
  • Perfect vs. interesting, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    There are two jobs available to most of us: You can be the person or the organization that’s perfect. The one that always ships on time, without typos, that delivers flawlessly and dots every i. You can be the hosting…
  • 360 Reviews, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I’m a fan of 360 reviews for companies of all shapes and sizes. I was talking to the CEO of one of our portfolio companies yesterday about his company and he said “we have about 50 employees. is it time…
  • Godspeed, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    When close friends Casey Diebold and Adam Devarney both graduated from Pratt University their journeys as artists naturally took them to very different places. Devarney returned to the serenity of his native Burlington, VT, while Diebold stayed in Brooklyn to work as a commercial storyboard artist. Their diverging paths…

Hindsight Links for Feb 25, 6:00 am

// February 25th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • True size of Vatican City, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:True Size vatican

    We saw the true size of Africa, relative to the world’s largest countries, by Kai Krause last year. Taking it in the other direction, xefer shows the true size of Vatican City, world’s smallest state, with an area of approximately 110 acres. That’s just big enough to house a handful …

  • An atomic theory of business size, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    The magic of the periodic table is that every atom is one thing or another–there isn’t a stable element that’s sort of oxygen and sort of nitrogen. If there were, there would be millions of elements, not a few hundred….
  • Wow, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I came upstairs to my office at 5:15am this morning with a simple plan. I was going to read through the comments to yesterdays post and select one and write a blog post. 5am to 7am is my writing/thinking time….
  • Design Indaba: Pecha Kucha, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    From the seven recent design graduates highlighted for their distinct talents at Cape Town’s Design Indaba conference on creativity, three particularly stand out for their innovative viewpoint and compelling demonstrations. While the others—Camille Blin, Dirk Van Der Kooij, Lindsay Kinkade and Christine Goudie—all presented well-founded concepts in their respective fields,…
  • Gibbon Slacklines, Evan Orensten @ Cool Hunting:
    From its origins in the 1970s—when it was used by climbers for practising their moves in parking lots and eventually to bypass terrain that was hard to climb across—Slacklines have more recently also become a great training tool to strengthen your core and improve your balance or just fun…

Hindsight Links for Feb 18, 6:00 am

// February 18th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Super Priority Inbox, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I love gmail priority inbox. I can’t imagine doing email in an email client that doesn’t have this feature. For those who are not familiar with priority inbox, it’s a feature that splits the gmail inbox into three sections. The…
  • The Essence of a Great Presentation, Team @ HBR.org:
    [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Last week, I played the piano for my friend Macy Robison’s cabaret-style recital…
  • Help Employees Listen When They Don’t Want to Hear, Team @ HBR.org:
    [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] When change initiatives fail, the culprit is often a lack of good communication…
  • Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    Among the many new exciting games and oddities at the 2011 Toy Fair, Activision’s latest gaming experience for the Nintendo Wii stood out for its fresh take on role-playing games. Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure is action-packed entertainment that lets player interaction cross between the game and real worlds. The game…
  • Solowheel, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    Like a stripped-down Segway, Inventist’s new Solowheel is geared for the mobile urbanite. The “self-balancing electric unicycle” operates through gyroscopic technology, which a 1000-watt rechargeable lithium-ion battery powers. On a full charge (which takes about 45 minutes), the Solowheel lasts two hours—but the battery actually recaptures energy when going…

Hindsight Links for Jan 28, 6:00 am

// January 28th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Failure, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    Given the amount of startup activity we’ve been witnessing the past couple years in the web space, we are in for a bunch of strikeouts this year. We should not avoid talking about failure. Words like roadkill and deadpool should…
  • Why I don’t sell Kimchi, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    Years ago, I put together a really cool plan to get into the artisinal kimchi business (with a tofu sideline, of course). What, you didn’t know there was an artisinal kimchi business? Here’s the first draft of our packaging (click…
  • So It Turns Out Technology Really Does Empower Us, Team @ HBR.org:
    It started with a car ride in Munich on Monday night. I was leaving a big party put on by…
  • Is Obama Gaining Power with Every Speech? (Are You?), Jeffrey Pfeffer @ HBR.org:
    Everyone thinks President Obama is a great orator. I think he has moments of greatness but often misses important opportunities…
  • Case Study: A Rush to Failure?, Team @ HBR.org:
    Editors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from…

Hindsight Links for Jan 14, 6:00 am

// January 14th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • Skip The Water, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I told this story to an entrepreneur last weekend and she loved it. So I figured I should tell it to everyone here at AVC. I was a mechanical engineering major (course 2) at MIT. One of the best classes…
  • When Did the Invisible Hand Lose Its Grip?, Team @ HBR.org:
    We aren’t the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as…
  • Are You the Boss You Need To Be?, Team @ HBR.org:
    How are you doing as a boss? As a leader and manager, someone responsible for the results obtained by others,…
  • How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive, Team @ HBR.org:
    Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I…
  • MoMA Spring/Summer 2011 Preview, Part I, Ami Kealoha @ Cool Hunting:
    While the MoMA store’s product preview always has us excited for the shopping year ahead, a few designs stood out for their “faux” ingenuity. Below are nine objects cleverly designed to resemble other objects, making for a new way to enjoy an old favorite. Check the MoMA store site this…

Hindsight Links for Dec 24, 6:00 am

// December 24th, 2010 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

  • NYC Big Apps Version 2.0, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    Last year NYC ran a mobile and web app developer contest called NYC Big Apps. I posted about it and was one of a number of judges. The city and the participating developers thought it was a successful effort and…
  • The Top 10 HBR Blog Posts of 2010, Team @ HBR.org:
    We think more about quality than quantity here on the HBR blog network, but we do pay close attention to…
  • The Most Intriguing HBR Blog Posts of 2010, Team @ HBR.org:
    In a previous post, we listed The Top 10 HBR Blog Posts of 2010, according to our readers. Here we’ve…
  • Gender, Brain Science, and Wrong-Headed Notions, Team @ HBR.org:
    Not too many people these days argue against the idea that having more women in positions of leadership and authority…
  • Peekaboo Forest, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    A new app for kids, Peekaboo Forest, brings the storybook quality of illustrator Charley Harper to the small screen. Constructed around the passing of seasons, the narrative features animals emerging from the bush and hiding in the dark of night, delighting toddlers with its roster of real animal sounds…
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