By the way, for those who had bookmarked the link to my watches crowns post, the address has changed. Instead of: http://live.prokhorenko.us/2009/08/watches-are-all-about-crowns.html it's now: http://live.prokhorenko.us/watches-are-all-about-crowns Unfortuntely, I don't know how to make this post "sticky", like people do with future-marking the posts on LiveJournal, to make them always visible on the top. Hopefully Posterous guys will tell us what's the best way to do this here. P.S. And you can also find it on my Blogger at http://prokhorenko.blogspot.com/2009/08/watches-are-all-about-crowns.html
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Moving the domain name to Posterous
Finally I came to the point that I do not see much sense in keeping up my Blogger account any longer.
Posterous became a great replacement, I found myself using only it, with broadcasting everything to all other points of presence, so why keep it secondary, while it's the deal maker. And it keeps much more history in it, comparing to Blogger, which keeps only its own story.
I would keep my Blogger (prokhorenko.blogspot.com) account anyways, but it's not going to be serving my live.prokhorenko.us domain name anymore.
Have fun and don't be angry of some posts reappearing again in the feed - shit happens.
Лже-Гугл в Украине
via ain.ua
Очень креативно, но все сильно усложнили. Ребята, ваш уровень - гоп-стоп. Не надо рвать шаблон. :)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
What emotions are you hunting for?
via en.wikipedia.org
It's very important to know what emotions are you targeting at when building a company. I'm a strongly believer that emotions play a major role for innovators & early adopters, when there is not much else available.
Plutchik's wheel is a popular list of 8 basic and 8 advanced emotions that people experience.
Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles
Red-carpeted premieres, sun and beaches, smog, Pauly Shore. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore. But let's face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind.
The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And that's not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005.
The Southern California locale benefits from its easy proximity to Silicon Valley, just an hour's flight away, as well as from the many universities in the area, including Cal Tech, where Intel founder Gordon Moore went to school.
Surprisingly, Hollywood hasn't played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC).
Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.'s startup scene so hot.
via fastcompany.com
Mark Suster tells why it could be a good idea to start a startup in LA. Mark, thank you for such a great interview!
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