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Evan Williams tells a story. Plot includes the "formula for creating a billion dollar company" ;).

Holy crap. I found the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast by Stanford and have been loving it. So much knowledge for free. I just went to their website and there are tons of them dating back to 2005. I'm currently listening to Evan Williams talk about podcasting and Odeo from that year. :)

Near the end he states that he doesn't like the framing of the statement: start a company that fixes a problem. "Sometimes people just want to make things because they think they'd be cool". Lastly he states that the key to a good idea is to have lots of different ones and first question whether you would like it yourself before considering.

#evanwilliams odeo stanford

Marc Andreessen on VC and the Digital Future

I caught an enlightening conversation on EconTalk with Marc Andreessen. A lot of it was familiar venture capital industry information that I've heard Andreeseen speak on before, such as how it's a continuously humbling job because the majority of your investments fail "and those are the ones that drive you crazy".

It was interesting to hear him speak about cryptocurrency and all the peripheral businesses starting around the space, such as insurance and cold-storage companies. It looks like these kind of companies will be crucial for crypto gaining mainstream acceptance.

Andreessen also spoke about the additional possibilities surrounding cryptocurrencies, such as digital titles and single-copy digital property such as music files, video files, etc. basically solving the problem of digital ownership. One can see why he states that this space is as big and important as the internet itself.

Audio here

#marcandreessen a16z cryptocurrency bitcoin

Tim Ferriss' new podcast is pretty great. This specific video is Chase Jarvis but he has also interviewed the likes of: Kevin Rose, Josh Waitzkin, Ryan Holiday, Jason Silva, and more. Its only been a few weeks and there are 9 episodes. Good stuff.

#timferriss thetimferrissshow

Param Jaggi: 19 year old working on a few interesting projects, including automobile exhaust adapters that drastically reduce CO2.

#Param jaggi

I know my last post was of Gary Vaynerchuk as well but this one is too good to pass up. The interviewer does a phenomenal job.

Gary Vaynerchuk - Better than zero

#gary vaynerchuk #garyvee #betterthanzero

Chris Dixon of a16z being interviewed by Semil Shah (1 of 8)

#chrisdixon #hunch #siteadvisor

Phil Libin. I love Evernote.

Paul Graham at the Launch Festival

#paulgraham #ycombinator #launch festival

Foundation

David Byttow started young, building websites and then games for fun. He attended Purdue for two semesters before dropping out to work for a gaming company. He later applied to Google twice: the first time hearing nothing back; the second time, 6 months later, he left any mention of college off his resume and was hired. Byttow worked on Google Buzz, Wave, and Plus before moving on to Medium and then Square.

In this piece he explains how his drive to leave and start his own company was not because of any specific idea he wanted to pursue but just because he wanted to start and build his own thing. While at Square Byttow discovered that three others in the company were planning to leave at the same time, they decided this was too good of an opportunity to pass up and banded together, starting with no idea and no funding. Byttow ended up selling his car, motorcycle, getting a new place and basically becoming a minimalist in order to simplify and better focus on his project. The team worked for 6-8 weeks on other ideas before turning to Angel Llist to research different categories they were interested in. They would take turns picking their favorites and then pitching different ideas to one another. During this process byttow saw a need to facilitate the exchange of easy, honest feedback to each other about their ideas, so he built a tool for the co-founders to communicate anonymously. Later he split off from the group to focus exclusively on what would become Secret.

#Secret #secretapp #davidbyttow

Brand new interview of Max Levchin by Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily.

#maxlevchin #sarahlacy #pando #pandodaily #pandomonthly

I find Ben Horowitz very entertaining. Probably because of my mutual love of hip-hop :) Venture Capitalist & former entrepreneur, sold his company for 1+ billion.

Productivity Hacks - A pretty old yet relevant video with a lot of actionable advice from the AppSumo guys. A lot of these ideas have been around forever but some are fairly new, either way they're are strategies to help you.

#appsumo #noahkagan #neville #productivity #hacks

Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the Mobile World Congress about the future of the internet in the untapped regions of the world. He says the assumption that internet use will be available to all in the next decade without intention is simply not true. He and Internet.org have plans to solve that.

I've watched this talk a couple times. It's encouraging right from the beginning, opening with Ben's story of their 'slow start' and how they only had 3k users after the first 3 months. Check it out!

#ben silbermann #pinterest #yc #ycombinator #startups

I really enjoyed this talk with Noah Kagan and Tim Ferriss about how to validate your business ideas before spending a bunch of time and money. They even evaluate a couple guest businesses on air.

#appsumo #noahkagan #timferriss

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