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My roommate shared the following statement of Groupon CEO, Andrew Mason, to his employees about resigning as head of the recently failing coupon giant. I liked his selection of words:

"After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding — I was fired today. If you’re wondering why… you haven’t been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that’s hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable."

To read more, you can Google "Andrew Mason fired" and the like, or visit this link for one of the versions of the story: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-fired-after-ridiculously-poor-earnings/

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Que la Primavera Mexicana Siga Floreciendo.

Participa con nosotros. Vamos a informarnos de lo que acontece en la vida cotidiana de México, a hacer conciencia, para después organizarnos y hacer algo por nuestro país. Inteligentemente.

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Startup Weekend Mexico City. A truly inspiring experience. Learn the details here. (Most parts of it are in Spanish!)

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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

(via promotoralocal)

[undergroundsapporo]

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Looks heavenly. Just want to kick it there.

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Build companies that not only make you rich, but also enrich people's lives.

The Values-Driven Startup

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Life on the Bay

It doesn't suck at all. Of course, I'm putting it mildly, for the sake of dark humor. I'm going through a very luminous phase in my life. I feel at ease, satisfied and glowing with possibilities. This place stimulates me constantly. I can't ask for much more than that. The city embraces me with its oceanic breeze, and its people sing the music of cheerful and diverse freedom. I'm becoming, slowly yet steadily, one with them.

For all of this, I feel, oh so grateful.

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Tonight, we are YOUNG.

Fun.

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Certain sharks, like the Great White, need the pressure of ocean water against their gills in order to obtain oxygen. So for them, to stop moving forward is literally to die. PG believes the same is true for startups. Inertia is your worst enemy. Momentum is your best friend. Stop thinking about possible solutions and start building them. Keep doing it over and over again until things start sticking.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1825877/5-things-i-learned-about-entrepreneurship-from-y-combinators-paul-graham

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WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Happiness, lots of light, lots of colors, lots of sounds, excitement, love.

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Writing is what I do when emotion takes over me. This happens quite often, so writing is my soul's outlet. Expression is one of the pillars that define my beliefs (the others probably being balance, passion and freedom).

Anyway, I had stopped expressing myself freely, mainly due to distractions such as moving to a new country (from Hermosillo, Mexico, to San Francisco, CA), joining a start-up full-time, and discovering a brand new realm of people and ideas. Just daily stuff, right?

I'm an enemy of excuses, so I'm back where I belong: capturing late night (and slightly untimely) inspiration. I do this because it soothes me, but that's something I already explained.

I'll cut to the chase. I ran into the picture shown above, which is Paul Graham's (Y-Combinator founder) Start-up Curve. It made a deep impression on me, because this is exactly what my life is like right now. A genuine roller coaster. Certainty? Who is that lady? Constancy? A thing of the past. Routine? Long gone.

This is the path I have chosen, I'm responsible for it. It thrills me, in a way so special that it fills my body with some inexplicable energy. I also admit, that it terrifies me, sometimes. I have very deeply installed paradigms within my brain, which I'm working hard to overcome.

It's a constant challenge, constant change, constant adaptation, and also constant evolution. Yet it tends to be the thrill who rises victorious over fear. And so, after much (oftentimes unnecessary) mental struggle, I find myself smiling in the end, satisfied with the rewards of moving forward. This picture, you could say, illustrates accurately who I am nowadays.

(If you want to read the article (which is not bad), click on the picture.)