Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities — what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction — what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of ‘time management.
– Steven R Covey, First Things First
Tag: startup
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The Compass and the Clock
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HTML-first
There’s a raging debate on the twitters about whether it makes sense to build for Android vs iOS first. The real answer is that it depends on the problem you’re solving and the user’s context. But most of the time, neither is correct. Most startups should be be building for the web.
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Or, Better Yet, Be Great Public Companies
…if you want your new tech corridor to play in the big leagues with Silicon Valley and its VCs, don’t stress about capital for entrepreneurs to create companies. Stress about capital that will buy provide exits for companies or that can get them to a liquidity creating IPO.
Marc Cuban, blogmaverick
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Privacy, Trust and Identity
Privacy, Trust and Identity are now at the forefront for all consumers, and have wide-ranging impact on technology and media businesses. From tech companies, expect lobbying actions, new tools, new policies and more personal control to rebuild users’ confidence, and from the policy world expect more guidelines around use of personal data and stricter repercussions for violations of user trust.
The Best “Sleeper Ideas” For Trends, Stocks, And Private Companies To Watch In 2014 – Forbes
Eric Jackson’s roundup of Sleeper picks includes this nugget from Michael Wolff (which of course I agree with), as well as a few thoughts from yours truly.
(via gregcohn)
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Customers Sell
People chase investors, but your best investor is your first real customer. And your customers are also your best salesmen.