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“The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It’s 7 x 24 x 365 x forever.” —
Mark Cuban
via How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
“A company’s DNA is set in the first 90 days. All team members are the smartest or most clever in their domain. “A” level founders attract an “A” level team.” — Sequoia Capital: Ideas
(Source: sequoiacap.com)
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Google Just Produced a MAD Visualization
Mapping Arms Data, that is. It visualizes the imports and exports of small arms, light weapons, and ammunition across 250 states and territories between 1992 and 2010. Specifically:
• Military weapons include artillery, mortars, machine guns (sub, light, and heavy), assault rifles, combat shotguns, and machine pistols.
• Civilian arms consist of pistols, revolvers, sporting shotguns, sporting rifles (anything not rated as a military item including fully automatic weaponry).
• Ammunition includes shotgun shells and small caliber ammo (anything below 14.5mm which isn’t fired from a shotgun).
It was produced as part of the Google Ideas INFO (Illicit Networks, Forces in Opposition) Summit. Read more about it here.
FJP: We particularly like its use of WebGL, which is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive graphics. It’s alarming, illuminating, and pretty mesmerizing to play with.
Image: Screenshot from the visualization.
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“The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified and pick yourself. It doesn’t mean you have to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer, but it does mean you stand up and say, “I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it.” — Seth Godin (via dpstyles)
(Source: brycedotvc)
“The most successful founders tend to work on ideas that few beside them realize are good. Which is not that far from a description of insanity, till you reach the point where you see results.” — PG (via brycedotvc)
“What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best — which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that success found me.” — Debbi Fields, Founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries. (via nasdaq)
“One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more.” —
Paul Graham