I didn't see that one coming, but I'm glad everyone got such a kick out of it. Yes it's real, but no, I'm not looking to invest in anything new right now (I'm still miffed about missing out on Color - hehe).
Sure, Y Combinator is like a Marine Corps for founders, but it's not actually like being a Marine (at least, as far as I can tell, for I lack to stones to do the latter). From this Hacker News comment thread.
I got to speak in the United Nations General Assembly hall a little while back, which gave me a great platform to unveil a Scumbag Kaddafi that Christina of breadpig helped me create. And yes, these are the real slides I actually projected on giant screens in the General Assembly hall. The decorum of that esteemed room may never be restored.
The front page of the web we all curate, debate, & even create
View more presentations from Alexis Ohanian.
Although there's no video yet, Soraya Fouladi sent me some awesome photos she took. Thanks so much for proving that I was in fact speaking there to all of you awesome UNIS-UN students -- you're an exceptionally inspiring group. Soraya's photos also prove that I am in fact capable of wearing a suit.
via khanacademy.org
I'm so in love with this guy and the KhanAcademy -- this idea of flipping the script about classroom work and homework just blew my mind.
And yes, breadpig is a huge fan of Professor Khan. Download the high-rez of one of Hadley's KHAAAAN! Hope posters and start spreading the word.
Panel 4 - Start Up ABCs: The Art of Closing Sales
Moderator: Professor Michelle Greenwald
You have a great product and plan for making money. Now you need to sell. Our panelists will discuss the fundamentals of selling in the early stages of a company.
Thanks to the NYU Stern folks for having me. I was a bit of a late addition, but I promised I'd bring nice things to hand out to people in the audience.
There's a longer entry on the subject here on the breadpig blog, but the important thing is that you aim to be in New York for this chance to witness Zach's red locks in person. We don't yet have a release date for the book, but it's coming!
He could have been studying, but instead, in a University of Virginia college library in 2005, Alexis Ohanian plotted out an idea for a user-ranked news site. "I thought: People should say at parties, 'I read it on Reddit.'" Today he jokes, "To the best of my knowledge, that has never really happened." But the news links site he created today is a hallmark of social aggregation. When he and co-founder Steve Huffman left the company in early 2010, they took with them lessons learned from managing a large, amorphous audience they'd empowered to rate the news to populate the site's homepage. With that, they created Y Combinator-backed Hipmunk, a radically simplified travel search site. This year, Hipmunk was a darling of the South by Southwest Interactive festival, taking top honors for the SXSW Accelerator's Innovative Web Technologies competition. Ohanian, along with Hipmunk co-founder Adam Goldstein, talked with Inc.com's Christine Lagorio about the lessons they took from Reddit in founding Hipmunk—why simple design, cute mascots, and massive amounts of user-respect drive their success.
via inc.com
Woohoo! Thanks, Christine (@lagorio). OK, now back to trying to make the world suck less...
via blog.hipmunk.com
Shaun Sanders does it again! In case you can't tell, I'm really hot for infographics as a means to indirectly promote hipmunk.
I met a friendly German and he interviewed me for something called Digital Bomb, which I didn't realize had ever been published until my FancyHands assistant dug it up. Wild. Be sure to watch the opener with TronGuy, it's...uhh....
I think I've got Albert to thank for this...