You can buy Twitter followers (if you’re willing to spend money stupidly), but you can’t buy a living network of people who are invested in you as a person and/or a creator. You have to earn that through work, and by being a person worth friendship.
— John Scalzi via
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This is where I see the weakness in Facebook in the future. Facebook is making its money by trying to allow a company to buy your friendship. This will only work for companies that are you want to associate with in that way and the problem for Facebook is that there are not that many companies that fit that bill.
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We will hit the point, likely soon, when the cost of starting a business is offset by the high cost of getting traction and keeping it. I am most wary of this when investing today.
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One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund, largely driven through the low-cost services it provides via Amazon Web Services. Thousands of startup companies rely on the infrastructure services provided by Amazon, creating a low-cost way for entrepreneurs to get new services off the ground quickly and scale as customers arrive.
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Amazon’s cloud services have changed everything and tilted it in favor of the smaller cash strapped entrepreneur. Their cloud has personally allowed us to do things that I would not have been able to pull off without major investment. Thanks again Amazon and Bezos
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The first question was “what do I think of the phrase ‘Silicon Beach’ for the LA startup community.” I responded that I thought it was stupid. I hate Silicon Whatever. LA should be LA.
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being self-led is exhausting!
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Yesterday my buddy Nate left this comment on the discussion of home schooling.
It has been on my mind, since.
Doing things your own way can be really difficult to handle. Especially if you are someone trying to change the way people interact with their world. You will encounter naysayers that will say your idea has been unsuccessfully tried before; people will think you are crazy, and crazy you are. Therefore it is important to surround yourself with people who have done it before or are in the process themselves. They might not see the world in the same way but they definitely understand the feelings you experience. Seek them out in your city, attend meetups, skillshare classes, online, etc.
One of the beautiful things that the internet enables is the interaction of likeminded ‘strangers’.
Being self-led can be exhausting but definitely gets easier if you feel like you are not doing it alone.
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Well said
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