dougsharp
Re:Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Industry
on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @04:32PM (#4609545)
Bryan, you may get a kick out of drip.fm. It certainly satisfies the first two prongs of your model (access+exclusivity).
Re:How Big Is Chicago's Startup Scene? About SOMA-Sized, Actually
on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @01:41AM (#4536534)
Just for laughs I'd like to see a comparison consisting of one measure: average time elapsed between entering a coffee shop and hearing the words "startup," "iterate," "pivot," or "code/coding/ruby/rails" :)
Re:Why You Should Quit Your Job to Be a Founder
on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @03:21PM (#4507306)
Though the title may imply differently, Jeff's point (to me, at least) focuses on a founder's mentality rather than actually quitting your job. None of the suggestions Jeff includes cannot be executed in a greater organization-whether it consists of 5 employees or 5,000.
Silicon Valley seems to prefer "founder," but all those traits sound close to "leader" in my book.
It is a dangerous thing to not think like a leader until you get to a position of leadership, as a) without a leader's mentality you may not even get to that position and b) once you are there you may not be as effective as you'd like (since you did not have any practice thinking that way).