Monthly Archives: September 2005

Entrepreneurs Aren’t Idea People

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“Entrepreneurship: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid”:http://www.businesspundit.com/archives/002240.html. (“via”:http://photomatt.net/2005/09/09/entrepreneurs/) Great quote:

I bring these up to highlight a key point – you don’t get investment for just an idea. It’s extremely rare. If you want to be an entrepreneur, stop believing that ideas matter. That isn’t what entrepreneurship is about. Entrepreneurs aren’t idea people, everybody and their brother has ideas. Entrepreneurs are people that exploit ideas by matching them to market needs, executing them despite scarce resources and designing a business model that makes the idea profitable.

Gruber on the New Skin for iTunes

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“The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme”:http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized. I don’t know if it takes a certain kind of user interface geek to appreciate this, or if it’s just all-around-geek funny. Either way, I was on the floor. (To the sensitive-types: watch out, f-bombs aplenty).

Photos are Back

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Courtesy of “Gallery”:http://gallery.menalto.com/, “iPhoto”:http://www.apple.com/iphoto, and “iPhotoToGallery”:http://zwily.com/iphoto/. Rock on: “photos”:/photos.

Nothing new there, except for the “once promised”:http://www.kennsarah.net/2005/02/09/getting-laid-off-more-time-to-blog/ car “photos”:http://www.kennsarah.net/photos/mazda-3/. I’m also using the default template with Gallery. *Really* boring, I know, but I’m intentionally not budgeting time to tweak the blog with a custom design. This is mostly because it will become a big black hole which will suck the few hours of free time out of my life, but also because there are “perfectly good templates”:http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/style_browser.php out there — maybe one day I’ll go nuts and actually use one.

Regarding the Bank of America CEO

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“Watch your back Citigroup, Kenneth Lewis is after you”:http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?StoryID=D700C62B-7DE1-4A4A-8B09-9856A42D24ED&SectionID=F60D3E05-7185-44CB-BB45-97AC94420FD5. Good article about some fascinating, driven people. I think banking has technology beat for amount of drama involved.

Where’d you go, psychoboy?

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??Slashdot??: “Balmer Vows to Kill Google”:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/03/0515250&from=rss

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At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: ‘Just tell me it’s not Google,” Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google. ‘At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office,’ Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. ‘I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.’

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Survival of New Orleans Blog

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“This journal has become the Survival of New Orleans blog”:http://mgno.com/. I’ve become a news junkie again since Tuesday. This link comes via the “BuzzCast”:http://buzz.cnet.com (my favorite podcast). NPR also has a “Katrina Weblog”:http://www.npr.org/news/specials/hurricane/katrina/, updated every couple of hours. “Ryan”:http://www.ryanabrams.net, will you be blogging the refugee response in Texas?