August 2009
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Fate Lions - All You Do Is Crazy
Found this...
“Verdana is a simple, cost-effective font which works well in all media and...”
– Latest Ikea Design Has Critics Fuming : NPR
Ok, I’m not a designer or font expert. Out of interest, how can a font be cost-effective?
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)
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Inglorious Basterds was awesome
Christoph Waltz kills it. In love with Mélanie Laurent.
Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away
New single...
“A note about NDAs: 1) almost no experienced entrepreneurs/VCs will sign them (in...”
– cdixon.org
Chris is crushing it on his blog right now.
(via mokoyfman)
soundcloud:
Röyksopp - Tricky Tricky
We just...
britticisms:
“We Won’t Break” by Zoot Woman
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The Dandy Warhols - The Last High- The Dandy...
Appraching 1000th follower on Twitter
My follower’s count is 994 today. I just deleted 4 fake/spam accounts.
Moving towards the 1000th follower, I was talking with Alex yesterday about an experiment I was thinking about for the last couple of days.
I’d be interested to go through my entire follower list and block all followers that:
are obviously fake, spam or porn
have been unactive for more than 6 months
...
WatchHall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (Pop Out & Play’s re-edit)
This one’s for Ryan! Click through to download, buddy!
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The Xx - Heart Skipped A Beat
Wanted to buy...
“The McDonald’s restaurant where Mary works doesn’t have a following, SHE does....”
– Social Media Excellence and a Side of Fries | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert
Brilliant.
via Johannes
“Part of being a good leader is building a great team. This implies judgment and...”
– SAMBA Blog: Leadership - Look Where No One Else is Looking
New Job Openings for our Berlin HQ
SoundCloud is hiring! Join a kick-ass team that’s also great fun to be part of.
soundcloud:
We just posted two new openings for our Headquarters in Berlin. We’re looking for an:
Agile Project Manager
System Administrator
Please click through to read the details and feel free to reblog or forward to anyone you know who could be interested.
Thanks!
“The whole entrepreneurial thing is that you kind of jump off a cliff and...”
– Reid Hoffman, as quoted by Jeff Bussgang in his new book, The VC Playbook (via fred-wilson) (via msg)
Watchsoundcloud:
New mixtape from Beck: No. 8 - Xerox Passion
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Y Combinator Series AA Financing Documents →
These documents were originally created for YC-funded startups to use when raising angel rounds. They seem to have worked well in trial runs so far, so we’re open-sourcing them.
Paul Graham is the man!
Such a great track
Jose Gonzalez / Cycling...
Watchsoundcloud:
Great remix of José Gonzàlez’ In Our Nature by Elias Landberg. Free download!
Go get it, friends!
Shit My Dad Says →
New favorite Twitter account to follow. Hands down.
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Monochrome - High Five
Monochrome is one of the...
An expat's disease: The Culture Shock →
Interesting!
Phase One - The Honeymoon phase Phase Two - Rejection phase Phase Three - Regression phase Phase Four - Recovery phase Phase Five - Reverse culture shock
Love this track! Ben Folds FTW!
sostark:
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The Jam - Town Called Malice
Bijan posted When...
Weekend fun: Citysounds 2.0 →
soundcloud:
Exactly one month ago, we introduced you to Citysounds.fm, a really cool mashup created by Henrik Berggren and David Kjelkerud during the London Music Hack Day.
Citysounds is built on top of the SoundCloud API and makes it easy to browse through SoundCloud tracks from a specific city around the world.
Today, Henrik and David inform us about a big update they just launched and let...
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Deer Tick - Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen cover)
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Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle →
“Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won’t sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?”
(via zehnuhr, givemesomethingtoread)
Pathetic. “Healthy” bottled water > health care?
“1. pre money valuation should value the company as it exists today. if investors...”
– a comment from my friend Mark Pincus on doing business with VCs. there is some really good advice in here.
The Ideal First Round Term Sheet
(via fred-wilson)
Well said, Mr. Pincus! I particularly like the beer & sushi part.
Whenever I meet founders or entrepreneurs that are asking me if I...
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Why? - This Blackest Purse
Eskimo Snow will be...
Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer EP (full... →
trmw:
The good people at Lala are streaming this in full, a week before release date (meaning you can’t buy MP3s yet). Lala has been really cool to work with, and I continue to be a fan of the service. Ah yes, and these songs are good too! Big Black Bird has slowly become one of my favorite BT songs of all time.
“Unavailable internationally”? Waaa! Waaawaaa!
On the plus side: I...
Watchsoundcloud:
Beck has just posted ‘Nr. 7: Summer Tapes’ to his SoundCloud profile.
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Fugazi - Waiting Room
Probably one of the most...
bijan:
Sleep All Summer - The National w/ St...