October 2009
September 2009
Peter thiel on needing more contrarians...
The world needs more refuseniks, rejectionists, resisters, gadflies, doubters, critics, objectors, muckrakers, and prisoners of conscience.”
Posted via email from Ryan Graves.organized | Comment »
My foursquare post went nuts & I got almost 500%...
This is the high single day of traffic that I’ve ever gotten. Cool. Posted via email from Ryan Graves.organized | Comment »
What I would change about Zynga’s strategy on... →
…
The most efficient way to understand the Health...
There are so many lopsided and confusing explanations out there about Healthcare in the USA. This slide deck (of napkins) explains it simply with pictures and with a fairly middle of the road perspective.
The goal: understand what’s going on in your country. The solution: check out these slides. The result: you’re a good citizen.
This guy has other stuff at…...
100 GREATEST HITS OF YOUTUBE IN 4 MINUTES
Posted via web from Ryan Graves.organized | Comment »
Raising Seed Funding For A Startup (Part 1) →
I’ve been studying a lot about raising a seed round of funding for a startup. Once your prototype is out and some traction is shown, if you’re going to need capital you gotta work very hard…
“Successful VCs should be helping to grow the farm team by helping the new start...”
– Rick Segal - The Post Money Value
“Revenue is revenue when you see the money. Expenses are expenses when you pay...”
– Seth Godin- Bootstrappers Bible
I’m reading this via tiny excerpt daily via DailyLit.com
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Sublime (10)
Passion Pit (3)
Harlem Shakes (3)
a-ha (2)
R. Kelly & Jay-Z (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 ... keep...
Sunday, September 27, 2009 Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 and didn’t really take off until 12 or so months ago. It must have been hard to stay motivated, keep investors happy, and innovate from 2006-2008ish. People sometimes think things like twitter just take off overnight. Nope. It took them a few years to get real...
Favre Touchdown Pass - he's a stud.
Posted via web from post.Ryan Graves.organized | Comment »
Bachelor Party in Colorado →
Last night I jumped on an SWA flight with 5 buddies headed towards Denver, CO. This weekend is my bachelor party, where we’ll be in Denver 1 night, camping in Estes Park 2…
Don’t be late to the party, get on Foursquare →
Over the past month or so I’ve had a similar feeling as I had back in April 2008. At the begging of April 08 I was evangelizing the use of Twitter. It wasn’t popular, it was “nerdy”,…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Dilated Peoples (15)
The Hood Internet (8)
Holy Ghost! (4)
YACHT (4)
Pnau (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Finally Take Control of Your Wordpress Menu →
I don’t normally post a bunch about Wordpress hacks, but since this caused me trouble for so long I thought I’d go against that norm. These 3 plugins have really made the menu on this…
“Why has the Internet proved to be such a powerful engine for creativity,...”
– FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
http://openinternet.gov/read-speech.html
This quote is why I feel very confident in investing time towards my future career in and on the internet.
How To Build An Awesome Startup Team – 5 Tips from...
I can confirm first hand that the team Ross and Mike have built at crowdSPRING is really phenomenal. After a wild lunch a few months back I see that these tips Ross provides have definitely been fulfilled, he’s walking the walk.
I asked Ross to post on this topic a few days back because this is probably one of the toughest, but most important things to do in building a startup. Make...
http://startupdinner.com/ →
Great philosophies of who should attend founderfire
Qualifiers. →
For as long as I can remember I’ve always found myself envying and analyzing people who are very successful. I’ve studied their personality traits, their career paths, and anything else that I feel…
How PBworks Used Lean Startup Techniques
via slideshare.net
I respect PBworks, and I have a lot I can learn from them!
Posted via web from post.Ryan Graves.organized | Comment »
Ditch Innovation and Unlock Awesomeness →
In my humble opinion, I believe that Umair Haque is one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. But, to be consistent with his own arguments, that doesn’t matter. What matters for…
Incubator 2.0: A Silicon Valley Success Story →
Great story of how the startup world works now.
Presentations and Documents tagged fbfund →
Hypothesis Test for Difference Between Proportions →
Teach yourself statistics - great reminder from decision sciences in college
Split Test (A/B Test) Calculator →
A/B Testing at PBworks - The official blog of... →
great write up on a/b testing and statistical confidence
Chapter 7 : CSS Margins « CSS Basics →
Dude...best tweet of the week from @holidaybowlman...
Posted via email from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »
VIDEO Of Obama Calling Kanye West A "Jackass" - I...
via youtube.com
Posted via web from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »
My talk on Startup Failure →
Last week I drove back up to Milwaukee for the first time since my move in early August to speak at Web414. I was asked by the founder of Web414, Gabe, to share my experience of failing at a…
Futurity.org →
great homepage layout that could be use for ecommerce site
Chicago Startups →
Great list of Chicago based startup (feb 09)
Alibaba.com Wholesale Platform - Get wholesale... →
great example of aggregated ecommerce layout
Twitter / Direct Messages →
Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.
How to kill a brand, Kanye style (with videos) →
Kanye Interupts Taylor Swift
You may be aware that a few nights ago Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift in her VMA victory speech to claim that Beyonce’s video…
I love good ideas, and this one is amongst the...
Posted via web from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »
Ben Dunn Surfing At 12, this kid is a stud.
http://worldprosurfers.com
Grizzly Bear video - great tune - While You Wait...
Posted via web from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »
Web414 for Sept.9 Second Hour Ryan Graves →
The video of my talk to Web414 about SocialDreamium Failure
Noam Wasserman's "Founder Frustrations" blog →
tips from a harvard prof
How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress «... →
How to turn your blog into a facebook application for extra FB distribution.
San Diego Super Chargers - Boltz vs Raiders...
Posted via web from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »
Appolicious: A better app store – from Chicago →
I recently hoped to find an iPhone app so that I could pull up TV schedules really easily. I search the Apple app store for “tv schedules” and found 3 options (screen shot below),…
ellis lanksder - (I was like um --- REMIX)
via youtube.com
Posted via web from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »
The Brown Quick Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog
via paulstonier.wordpress.com
Posted via web from ryangraves’ posterous | Comment »