A great article in the Atlantic laying out the case for how the NCAA, rather than protecting college athletes, perpetuates their exploitation. I’ve always felt conflicted over my love for college sports, especially football. On the one hand, sport provides hundreds of thousands of athletes with funding, life skills, and in many cases a shot to make it to the highest level of competition - professional or olympic. Sport also encourages a lifetime bond between alumni - no matter how slothful - and their alma mater.

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If American Apparel designed websites

Pretty gallery of interesting and different landing pages. Traits of Successful Landing Pages

If you’re building a product on the web and need to figure out what to use to collect metrics, run a landing page, create AdWords campaigns, or manage email campaigns @DavidCrow put together a great list of tools that he and others have found helpful. Tools for the “Lean Startup”

startupquote: Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not. - Michael Dell Source: startupquote-blog

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People are building features instead of Apps, and Apps instead of businesses. Hermione Way explains why. An outsider’s perspective on what is wrong with Silicon Valley

I was a fan of Mark Cuban back when he built and flipped broadcast.com. Yes, he’s controversial, but I appreciate a person who makes it, and then spends his money on something he loves and the pursuit of excellence. I wish that every team owner could be as gracious as he is in victory. You can’t watch the video of him carrying that trophy out of the building like it’s a newborn and not feel happy for the guy.

Hint: Don’t compete on features. Hint 2: If you can’t redefine and describe your product in a way that presents it as unique and attractive, then milk that cash cow. And if it isn’t a cash cow, then kill it! Product Differentiation for Dummies