I completely agree with this. Boredom is an indicator. Just that. If the light turns on it indicates you have to do something about it. the question is...is it good or bad when it turns on? That depends on everyone I mean, there's not a standard for that
we are Tiedots (http://tiedots.co), a networking platform that provides you tailored information about other attendees every time you go to an event. This way we unveil you the most valuable leads and also find you the best way to approach. Saving time and increasing your business opportunities
The biggest challenge so far is building a solution that can provide relevant connections. Accuracy is the key and we’re working on a web semantic solution since we’ve been testing the solution manually with around 100 event attendees.
How would you determine the relevance? any other ideas?
PS: No matching solutions. Networking is about leads no matching.
I agree. I'd dare to say it's a common problem in most EU countries. EU is a more regulated environment in comparison to the US. EU is the old school of business (i.e. banks), so politicians are more focused on protecting them instead of helping to create new ones. This involves a cultural change. The economic downturn is the opportunity to do so
It's a pretty good idea imo . I don't share most of the complains about the law, but the one they refer to "protest in front of public buildings" is unbelievable. For instance, according to this, Transferwise could have never lead a naked march on Wall Street
I'm submitting my project to hear from you and see what you think about it. We've developed it in Madrid (Spain) and I wanted to tested outside our city.
1) Write whatever you feel, either if you think is great or a piece of junk
2) What do you think about the texts? Are clear enough?
3) Do you feel the way startup communities socialize can be extrapolated to other sectors? (investment banking, consultancy...)
4) Suggestions, improvements, dreams, unicorns...all are welcome
This job has been made with a lot of coffee, patience, Django, Jquery, CSS and users complains
David Graeber pointed out on his article "The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political"
I don't agree. The answer is strictly economic. There are bullshit jobs just because people want to amass fortunes. The problem is not to have a guy working as a "legal consultant" or as a "ska drummer" but to have thousands of them doing the same thing. There's a point when a 101 legal consultant adds no value, but the job still exits. Why? because companies in that industry need to grow and to do so they expand beyond the target to whom they add value. This is it, they expand where the service is not actually needed.
So services/products expanded to targets to whom they add no value is when bullshit jobs are created, and the reason behind this is just to make more money instead of solving problems to the world.
I see your point and I find it reasonable. In fact, a good way to see it's those sculptures are the touch of a human being and, destroying them, they're also destroying the essence of the human lives that created them. Something we'll never recover.
What scares me is how the Islamic State got to the conclusion they could attract more attention by destroying art than killing human lives. As if they'd have simply measured their acts and they'd think they could get a higher impact by destroying artifacts...
It may even be that the images of destroyed artifacts are more effective than those depicting executions, because they are televised everywhere and not relegated to the depths of the Internet
I can't help but thinking over and over about that statement.
1) Do we relegate human lives to the depth of the Internet?
2) Are we, the western world, more sensitized about destroyed art than human executions?
3) As Bill Leonard said on We steal secrets: "The ultimate power of image is that it helps people understand what it is"
I find interesting the way they've designed the site to build communities based on trust. Actually, it's something it's always been there. I don't know in the States but in Europe it's pretty common to see small villages in which its citizens know each other well, share their things or show up at someone's home without letting know previously...the kind of things you do when you trust your neighbours...
Even though I think sometimes we're trying to rediscover the wheel, I like the concept
I think this an interesting topic to put on the table. In EU, the power is split between the governments and the banks, so, enterprises from other sectors has not very much influence on decision-making at this level as they have in the US. In my opinion, the definition of monopoly is "wrong market situation", thus, I'd change the modal verb for "must" and I'd remove the question mark.
The intriguing question here is why a business magazine is raising this concern and why EU is quiet while they fined Microsoft over and over. Is Google lobbying better?
I did really like this post. Many thanks for sharing since most of us, including me, are relunctant to write these kind of things down
Is the price of being an entrepreneur high? Yes, it is. I do not know anyone enrolled in "creating something from the scratch" that might contradict the prior statement
Do we have to learn to put some limits to the price we are paying? Definitely yes, and this guy is putting a name to a lot of muted voices. Personally, I do not distinct so much between my personal or professional time since in my case I do love what I do, but I try not to bother F&Fs with conversations about startups and I do try to talk about other topics. This has double benefits. One not to bother others (as mentioned) and Two open your mind talking about things you don't usually have the opportunity to discuss about
Disruption starts --> Early Adopters modify behaviour --> If huge, global population adopt as well --> Disillusionment, new needs coming up --> New disruption would be needed then, but corporations are slow and clumsy and sometimes are not able to adapt as faster as the market does.
This is the case of Amazon as it's been the case of many more in the past. You cannot eternally grow without decreasing your value at some time, reformulating your value proposition and launching your new proposal to the market.
So this is normal to me. Nothing strange. What sounds weird to solve the problems they are facing is their new proposal: a non-online store :/
I've just read this and the whole story sounds extremely weird to me...
I don't know how things are done over there in SF, but from my point of view there's no need to go to a City Town Hall to solve this...you book online, show up and play. It looks more a way to feed the Tech Hype rather than a real problem but...