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Richard Branson: Advice for Entrepreneurs

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:04:00 +0400

Richard Branson: Advice for Entrepreneurs

"‎”It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or..."

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:57:33 +0400

“‎”It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.””

- Theodore Roosevelt (Paris, Sorbonne, 1910)

Why Eyeballs No Longer Matter For Startups

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:27:26 +0400

Why Eyeballs No Longer Matter For Startups:

Tim Devaney and Tom Stein emphasise lots of important trends in current realities of raising capital.

Can’t agree with them more! Cash is the king performance indicator for a start-up, unless you are starting something to be extraordinarily huge in the future… but are you?

Ask yourself that question more often…

"The big question of our time is not “can it be built?” but “should it be..."

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:35:27 +0400

“The big question of our time is not “can it be built?” but “should it be built?”…”

- The Lean Startup

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:39:15 +0500

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac. 1960 (via ingridrichter)

A tip from Keith Cunningham: Don’t Make Where You Are...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:29:00 +0500

A tip from Keith Cunningham: Don’t Make Where You Are Wrong

Startup Founder MUST SEE: Steve Blank - The Democratization of...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:03:00 +0500

Startup Founder MUST SEE: Steve Blank - The Democratization of Entrepreneurship

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I..."

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:20:00 +0500

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

- Ray Bradbury

4 awesome features missing from your phone and tablet

Sat, 26 May 2012 08:18:00 +0500

Some cool features are missing from ur phones and tablets that are right there and ready. Here they are:

Fingertip Recognition

Why will it come?
Current lock screens on iOS and Android suck. That’s a fact. It is ultimately easy to someone standing near you to see and memorize you typing your passcode or what shape you swipe to unlock your smartphone. But not only that, also your finger trails will make it almost too easy for someone to guess your passcode. And typing pass-code over and over again just to unlock the phone is so annoying.

How it will work?
Traditional way of it will work with a screen asking to put your fingers and hold for couple of seconds.

More interesting approach can be if phone or tablet by default stays unlocked, and only screen will be hid after some inactivity time.
When user will start touching the surface, device will automatically track all fingerprints and will keep device unlocked if fingerprints match. If fingerprints will be not recognized - device will lock. This also will protect your device in case some one started to use it right after you left it - and the lock timer is not complete yet.
3D Cameras Driven Gesture Control

Why will it come?
Some smartphones from HTC and others already are equiped with 3D screens and cameras. The world around us is in 3D, and it is the only natural way for humans to communicate through and control it.

How it will work?
Your phone will have 3D camera(s) and a 3D screen. You will be able to communicate with your phone/tablet without touching it. Your mobile device will basically be able to recognize 3D image of yours, and scan 3D models of things around you.

A great example of such technology is Microsoft Kinect. Imagine how great it will be to play Kinect games on your phone or tablet!
The new version of Kinect already is precise enough to read your lips. Imagine how the speech recognition will improve with such a technology. 3D camera will track your eyeballs to make your touch and gestures commands extremely precise. Also you will be able to film in 3D!

Apple should be so envious of Microsoft owning such technology as Kinect…
Here is a good example of technology. just working with gloves: http://bit.ly/JEVewq.
Eyes Retina Scanning And Face Recognition

Why will it come?
Cameras are more than photo taking devices, and no wonder they evolve so fast to become more and more precise. This progress can enable a whole new set of functionalities like scanning your face and eye retina for your identification as the owner of the phone. 3D cameras will add up to this to be more realistic.

How it will work?
You will move to get your face occurred in camera lens focus zone. Phone will recognize you (via scanning your face and eyes retinas), and expect a touch to unlock. This means that camera will basically work all the time in some kind of suspend mode, waiting for you getting into the picture.
Pressure Sensitivity

Why will it come?
Touching is one of natural ways of communication for humans. And the thing is in real life touching includes pressure. Existence of such drawing tablets as Wacom makes the technologie merge inevitable. And this will make so many of my artist friends extremely happy!

How it will work?
Imagine if your phone and tablet surface was as sensitive for pressure as your Wacom drawing tablet.
This will evolve user experience in apps to the next level. Also, if technology will be precise enough, it will create a whole new eco-system of customers, accessories and apps.
Those customers will be anyone who wants to draw (professionals and newbies), those accessories will be pens of different sizes and formats for tablets and phones, and covers designed to hold those pens.
Those new apps will be all kind of apps letting artists to draw with full artistic pen preciseness (guess Photoshop?).

Every single artist in the world will rush to buy such phone or tablet!

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently..."

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:48:13 +0500

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

- Gary Ryan Blair

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that,..."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:06:00 +0500

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

- Warren Buffett

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:29:03 +0400

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

- Steve Jobs

Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:20:00 +0400

Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter

"What today is impossible in your business, but if it could be done would fundamentally change it?"

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:18:00 +0400

“What today is impossible in your business, but if it could be done would fundamentally change it?”

- Joel Barker

Steve Jobs at NeXT

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:18:44 +0400

Steve Jobs at NeXT

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done..."

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:52:08 +0400

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”

- Steve Jobs

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times,..."

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:53:58 +0400

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

- Michael Jordan

"I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to..."

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:14:06 +0500

“I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.”

- Steve Jobs

startupquote by Thomas Edison

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:58:37 +0500

startupquote by Thomas Edison

"My job is to say when something sucks rather than sugarcoat it."

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:33 +0500

“My job is to say when something sucks rather than sugarcoat it.”

- Steve Jobs