Good quote (thanks VCMike) on passion from Spencer E. Ante’s BusinessWeek analysis titled Startups in a Downturn:
… Read the restTalk to the entrepreneurs who built great companies during bad times, and they’ll tell you there are a number of lessons that help explain their success.
When I joined upstart Clickable in 2007, I said that passion and innovation were among the core reasons for my move. I was part of one amazing team (BuzzMetrics) that made a meaningful impact and was acquired by Nielsen, and I was ready to do it again with another amazing band.… Read the rest
I recently video interviewed Frank Rose, contributing editor at Wired, following a discussion he led at Clickable. Frank spent the past decade writing about the changes digital technology has wrought on media and entertainment. He started out covering the Lower Manhattan punk scene of the ’70s for The Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Talking Heads.… Read the rest
Why can’t governments operate more like businesses? In a twist of fate, the White House now is demonstrating how businesses should operate. Including online.
This was evidenced, perhaps more than anywhere else, at 12:01 p.m. during the Presidential inauguration, at www.whitehouse.gov/blog… Read the rest
A quote by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in the New York Times Magazine caught my eye today:
… Read the rest“For me, acting is torturous, and it’s torturous because you know it’s a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, That’s beautiful and I want that.
