Posts tagged startups
“User Experience is the establishment of a philosophy about how to treat people. Visual Design is the establishment of a philosophy about how to make an impact.”
Whitney Hess quoted in User Experience The Don Draper Way
“A good hockey player skates to where the puck is. A great hockey player skates to where the puck is going to be.”
Wayne Gretzky | 5 things that destroy a company’s value
“Whether it’s us, Pinterest, or Flipboard, you’re seeing a change in the way content, commerce, and social are blending. Media is not just about commerce OR content OR social. The new reality is that it’s all of the above, and we’re creating that every day.”
Jason Goldberg, CEO Fab.com | Fab Blasts Through The Commerce-Media Divide With Five New Verticals
“Fab doesn’t want to necessarily emulate the Amazon style of providing a huge catalog of products. It’s still committed to curating a smart list of items that users can discover through browsing. He said the site can support a lot more products without overwhelming the user experience.”
“Fab didn’t scale like an ecommerce company, because it isn’t one. Sure, ecommerce is how they make money, but what drives the love for Fab is the content. Co-founders Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer are essentially magazine editors masquerading as etailers. Day-after-day, they are designing a gorgeous, aspirational life for you one item at a time.
…What’s more: This is a company no one in the Valley would have built.”
Pinterest is already working with Skimlinks to convert all e-commerce outbound links to affiliate links.
So exactly what Polyvore et al have been doing for years. I’ve played around with Pinterest and find it useful visually for comparing new decor ideas and bookmarking cute outfits. But it’s a lot of work to find new content to add to the site, especially since browsing and searching Pinterest mostly turns up redundant content.
Fifty years ago, the four most valuable U.S. companies employed an average of 430,000 people with an average market cap of $180 billion. This year, the four largest U.S. companies employ an average 120,000 people with an average market cap of $334 billion. The titans of 2011 have twice the the value of their 1964 counterparts with a quarter of the employees.
(via The Atlantic)
“What if you could re-define books’ value proposition? What if book-buying became less about one-off salesmanship, and more about ongoing membership? What if you didn’t buy books so much as join them?”
My hesitation with ebooks is the price. For what they cost, I want something physical in return. This subscription model would be an appealing compromise.
“If we don’t learn to program, we risk being programmed ourselves.”
Douglass Rushkoff | On (Not) Learning to Code
“Pick one thing and do that one thing — and only that one thing — better than anyone else ever could.”
Jason Goldberg, CEO, Fab.com | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
“Only reinvent the wheels you need to get rolling.”
Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
“Facebook’s Smart Lists and Google+ Circles have popularized the idea that we need the ability to share different things with different audiences. That lets us have fun with some people and be boring with others without having to maintain two profiles. But neither of those networks offer much control for the person on the receiving end…. Pinterest Is the reverse of Circles.”
