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Check out VentureBeat's coverage of our recent talk: "Ten unconventional wisdoms for funding startups," at http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2009....
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Teach probability instead of calculus - http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2009...
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David Cowan: "Instead of building up to calculus as the epitome of math education, we should instead sequence our lessons so that every high school graduate understands statistics and probability. Calculus is nice for scientists to know, but statistics inform most complex decisions that people have to make both at work and at home. Undoubtedly, Benjamin is right that most people don't understand simple concepts like expected value, which perhaps explains the success of lotteries and casinos."
- Nivi
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I think the people who play lotteries understand that the expected probability of gaining financial independence in the next week is zero if they don't play, and epsilon if they do :)
- Private Sanjeev
But if those same people would explore the opportunity cost, they would see that their epsilon could be slightly greater in another investment. but we're human, so we're driven by our short-term emotional satisfaction.
- avlok
"More troops will be trained as unmanned airplane operators than as fighter or bomber pilots combined." – http://www.military.com/news...
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I love this word: "whaling". It's phishing for whales (rich people). Learn more: http://cultofmac.com/exclusi....
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"Show success before asking for help." – Derek Sivers, http://sivers.org/success...
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Zeo closes the sleep feedback loop: http://www.myzeo.com/index.cfm. Looks cool and well executed. Check out their board: http://www.myzeo.com/pages....
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"Our current contractor agreement is one page long. I wrote it then showed it to our lawyers. They said it was fine." – http://www.37signals.com/svn...
hahah.. so every1 is on samepage status :)-
- Peter Dawson
37signals asks, "What does a community manager do?" A great response: http://www.37signals.com/svn....
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"Fourteen years ago I was stabbed in the throat… after my unsuccessful murder I wasn’t unhappy for an entire year." – http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Space Cowboy, Bret Taylor, Daniel Dulitz and 6 other people liked this
85-year-old wisdom - http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2009...
"Don’t be surprised if a VC asks you for your http://survey.io results." – Sean Ellis, http://startup-marketing.com/free-cu...
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you can add those to your friendfeed directly and from there to twitter as well - as a follower I would prefer that ;)
- Valto Loikkanen
"I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most." – Dwight Schrute, http://www.cougarboard.com/nologin... (There's a better way: http://venturehacks.com/article....)
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"Find someone to be successful for." – Obama, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
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Niftynosh looks at their product and wonders "What could we have left out?" http://www.slideshare.net/BarryLy.... Learn about the MVP: http://venturehacks.com/article....
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