Next big thing? Jack Dorsey and Squareup
Jack Dorsey, founder and former CEO of twitter, today published the website of his new startup Squareup. Honestly, I believe that this has a potential of becoming the next paypal of real life. Obviously there’s a great hype about the whole thing, because it’s Dorsey – the founder of Twitter – and not some jerk.
The theoratical idea is mesmerizing; enabling evey seller, no matter how small a safe and secure (we’ll see about that) way of handling plastic payments. Square’ups module is available for any mobile device with an ordinary headphone jack – that’s potentially a huge market. Watch the video interview with Dorsey and wait a little bit to see the dongle in live action.
A dirty little secret about Entrepreneurship & success
A contented person with a whole heart, who has never doubted for a moment that she is loved by God and the universe, should not bother trying to succeed as a creative entrepreneur. She should get a job working for someone else, turn it off at 6:00 PM, and come home to the people who love her.
Only a restless, broken heart can drive you to do what is necessary.
And that’s how to succeed in business without really crying.
Read the entire thing here, it’s quick and dirty Zeldman
Why screenwriting is awesome
Ein Update
Ich beschäftige mich derzeit mit einigen Dingen. Hier ein Überblick was sich so tut
www.tupalo.com
www.123people.com
www.tripwolf.com
www.all140.com
www.dealhamster.com
www.doctrs.com
und dem besten Baumeister in Kärnten
The backpack speech
Now this is going to be a little difficult, so stay with me.
How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second you are carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff you have in your life and start with the little things the shelves, the drawers, the nicknacks: then start adding larger stuff, clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV – backpack should be getting pretty heavy now – and you go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home – I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now i want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office, and then you move to the people that you trust with your most intimate secrets, your brothers and sisters, your children, parents, and finally your husband, wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend – and get ‘em into that backpack – feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake; your relationships are your heaviest components in your life. all those negotiations and arguments and secrets are compromising. The slower we move, the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live, symbiotically over a lifetime, star-crossed lovers, monogamous swans –
We are not swans, we are sharks.
Ivan Reitman’s new masterpiece: Up in the air
“How much does your life weigh?”
Ivan Jason Reitman did 4 short movies. He then directed Thank you for smoking (notably executive produced by Tech Entrepreneur David Sacks) and right after that Juno. Impressive for somebody born in ‘77. His new masterpiece is called “up in the air“. The trailer is a thing of beauty. It’s such a perfect blend of an amazing underlying soundtrack, George Clooney’s Voice and staggering images. They could make you laugh, cry and shiver – all at once. Reitman is my personal Hollywood wunderkind (although originating from Canada).
The soundtrack comes from Textile Ranch/Charles Atlas and is called Genova
The white ribbon – I cannot wait
Help Remedies enlarges pill portfolio
The nice people over at Help Remedies recently added a plethora of new drugs to their portfolio. When I first came across their products in 2008 I was impressed by the beauty of packaging design, especially in the realm of dead-ugly packages in the US pharmaceutical market. Help Remedies’ smart move is to get rid off all the “extra strenghts” in Helvetica ultra bold, but make it a nice experience to taking medication.
As an MD i miss seeing more of these in a professional-medical environment. Apart from being beautiful, packaging has another – not much talked about – functionality: Allowing physicians to distinguish between meds. There’s not a small amount of cases where Doctors or nurses misinterpret medication and patients get treated with the wrong drug, just because each pharmaceutical company spends a lot of money on how the packages should look like and how to make them “attractive” to doctors.
However, New York based Help remedies, is not intended to be on stock at hospitals (as far as I know) but their business model is a blend of distributing them to design hotels, online shop and B2B collaborations with various companies. I really like that idea and hope to hear from of them in future.
Also, have a closer look of those beautiful and indeed helpful pieces of medicine + art at PSFK
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Seedcamp Week 2009 applications are now open for the next wave of European web-tech talent to apply
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Applications are now open and being accepted till August 23rd. More details are on our website (www.seedcamp.com) and blog (www.blog.seedcamp.com).
How a viral Video should be
For the free tripwolf iPhone application we did a video. Props go to the great guys and girls at FH Salzburg and thanks to Freud for providing a great soundtrack. Check it out here and let me know what you think.
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