July 2008
18 posts
They say it’s hard to live in San Francisco and not take funding, but I beg to differ: out here it’s easy to get lucrative consulting gigs and fill your bank account. Contract for someone else with funding, make some money, save it up, then spend it on your company. You don’t have to sell your soul to a VC or live off of ramen. Just be smart.
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“… we have been trained to believe that there *is* a free lunch. We have...”
– Hank Williams
You see some of these selective liberal arts colleges building new physical education facilities with these huge sheets of glass and these coffee and juice bars, and charging students $40,000 a year, and you have to ask, does this contribute to the public good, or is it just a way for the college to keep up with the Joneses?… We are a tax-exempt institution, so I think the public has a right...
…the Fed has sacrificed the quality of its own balance sheet. In June 2007, Treasury securities constituted 92% of the Fed’s earning assets. Nowadays, they amount to just 54%. In their place are, among other things, loans to the nation’s banks and brokerage firms, the very institutions whose share prices have been in a tailspin. Such lending has risen from no part of the...
Furry Phreaks - Soothe (Chicane Mix)
The browser is the computer
manifesto
preach. aka ‘Zaha Hadid proposal denied’
WatchEtienne de Crecy @ Transmusicales fesitvals in Rennes, France. Courtesy Kanye
“Random tinkering is the path to success. And fortunately, we are increasingly...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Web entrepreneurs today are so hallucinated by their own culture that they have forgotten that there is a whole range of important problems to be solved for which the internet is not necessarily the panacea.
Paras Chopra
