David Noël

"A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started?” Mozart responded, “A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony.” “But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old.” “But I never asked anybody how."

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This reminds me of the best entrepreneurs I have met!

Malkavian Quotes

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blakewhitman:

Attention universe! The wait is over. Take the new Vimeo for a spin today!

It looks stunning. Congrats and well done, friends at Vimeo!

If you ever bump into Blake, ask him how this redesign came to be. Probably one of the nicest stories I’ve heard about the dedication of an individual for its company. 

(Source: vimeo)

"And this community wasn’t imported from another network like a facebook’s graph. It was built purposefully for the Tumblr experience."

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This answers the One Network To Rule Them All question for me. I’ve always said that I like keeping my “graphs” separated (SoundCloud, Instagram Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc) and for that reason I find myself participating in a variety of other networks, ten times more than I do on Facebook.  

Tumblr has enabled me build my own personal community. I’ve found more value in seeing strangers become friends rather than adding people I last saw 15 years ago in school as friends.

Bijan Sabet: 6k posts later

 

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Aww, Timehop. It’s funny, the more data I fed into different networks last year, the more I get back every morning with the Timehop email.

Today’s email not only reminded me of this picture I took on the L train, it actually tells me that I was on my way to meet Andy in person for the first time to have lunch at Pastis. Oh and today last year was also the day I fist met Fred, John and David. 

Love Timehop. I didn’t know I “needed’ it until I started receiving these emails every day. 

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Wearing my new Instagram shirt with prooooooaaar. Thanks @josh, cc @kevin (Taken with instagram)

Almost. But not quite.

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Meet Raul.

Raul is the doorman at the hotel I stayed at in New York. One morning, I walk out of the door and he sees my SoundCloud jacket. He asks me if I’m a musician, I say no, he asks why I wear this jacket and I tell him I work for the company. He immediately pulls out his phone and shows me his tracks on the SoundCloud app. Raul is a rapper, shares a bunch of demos with his account and tells me he loves SoundCloud.

The next day, I gave Raul a SoundCloud shirt and we took this picture in front of his hotel. Below is one of his tracks:

Note to self: always have SoundCloud tshirts with me

Note to self 2: get a haircut, those are some serious hair wings right there

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Eric Wiesen's Ideas: How to Make an Introduction →

garychou:

wiesen:

It wouldn’t have occurred to me to write about how to make introductions, but I’m surprised at how many people get it wrong. The most common error is making a connection between two people when at least one of them doesn’t actually want to be connected.

VC’s tend to receive a lot of…

Eric explains why you should almost always do the double-opt-in intro.

I try to live by the double-opt-in intro as much as I can