The number of people you need to ask for permission keeps going down:

1. Go, make something happen.

2. Do work you’re proud of.

3. Treat people with respect.

4. Make big promises and keep them.

5. Ship it out the door.

When in doubt, see #1.

Seems simple and obvious right? Once again, I think Seth has it right

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Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University.

“Hardly a day goes by when I don’t have a rookie entrepreneur ask for advice on raising money from VCs. They usually have a fancy-looking business plan with detailed spreadsheets showing how their company will be worth billions by capturing just 1% of a market. All they need is some financing, and they’ll take the world by storm. My advice is always the same: ditch the business plan, and buy a lottery ticket. Your odds are better, and you’ll suffer less stress.”

via Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket.

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Google Translate for Animals

March 31, 2010

Google Translate for Animals.

Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans

Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. We are excited to [...]

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FTC to Internet Companies: Start Using SSL | Electronic Frontier Foundation

March 19, 2010

It’s about time…
In a speech before an Federal Trade Commission roundtable yesterday, outgoing FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour called on Web services services like Yahoo!, Facebook and Hotmail to start using HTTPS/SSL encryption.
Google has recently shown leadership in this space, by enabling HTTPS for Gmail, as well as making it the default behavior so that [...]

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Looking Beyond the Staggering Mobile Stats in the BRIC Countries – The eMarketer Blog

March 19, 2010

While this statement blows my mind (and the numbers don’t even include Hong Kong):
Staggering as it may to conceptualize, there will be more mobile Internet users in China in 2010 than the entire population of the US.
This may be true, but looking deeper into the situation will review that:
- These mobile internet users in China [...]

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