Showing posts with label Mark Andreessen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Andreessen. Show all posts

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Farming, Popcorn Economics, Pork and Ning

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever
from MSNBC Overseas demand offsets end of price supports, fewer domestic smokers

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever
from MSNBC Overseas demand offsets end of price supports, fewer domestic smokers

Rising costs lead farmers to go high tech
from USAToday

Popcorn and Other Pricing Puzzles
BusinessWeek

Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
BlogPmarca.com and Mark Andreessen

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Champion Factories, Rick Warren, Newspapers, Mainline and Franchised Churches, Hispanics and Churches, Leadership

Champion Factories
There is a school of thought that holds that champions like Super Bowl LXII quarterback and most valuable player Eli Manning are born, not made.

Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch
from blog.pmarca.com

Rick Warren: We Need to Be on the Same Team
Speaking at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C. recently, Rick Warren suggested that mainline churches need to reconcile with evangelicals to counter their mounting problem of membership decline.

Why Aren’t Your People Inviting Other People to Attend Your Church?
Maybe people aren’t inviting people to your church because they aren’t that enthusiastic about it either.

Re-Thinking the “Franchised Church”
Franchising Church is not about being a “McChurch”, it’s about following a “McSystem”.

Switch by Hispanic Catholics Changes Face of U.S. Religion
In a huge cultural transformation that is changing the face of religion in the United States, millions of Hispanic Americans have left the Roman Catholic Church for evangelical Protestant denominations.

Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline
from First Things
Mainline Protestants reeling
By GARY STERN THE JOURNAL NEWS
Mainline denominations losing impact on nation
By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
What Makes a Thriving Mainline Church When Many are Dying?
By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter

Studies Say Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline
from WiredBlog network

You Know You’re Not Leading When…
from MondayMorningInsight.com

Friday, January 25, 2008

Boredom, Getting Stuff Done, Life, Senior, Soap and Capitalism

6 Effective Ways to Combat Boredom!
WHY is the vast majority of content which becomes “popular” on social networking platforms (like Digg, Stumble and Propeller) inherently negative, fear-inducing and purpose-less in nature?

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done
from ZenHabits

London's French Foreign Legion Shuns Sarkozy Plea to Come Home
from Bloomberg.com

CCM Magazine transitions to online-only format
Nashville Business Journal

Custom-Building a Life
BusinessWeek . . .Jeff Weinstein's burger joint has taken off, but he has struggled to balance life and the job. Then he hit on a work-in-progress solution.

More employers seek out seniors
MSNBC Growing list of companies see benefits of hiring people 50 and up

Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley
Now it's getting fun...
Massive fraud by a rogue trader at Societe Generale SA has led to a €4.9 billion ($7.16 billion) [loss]...
both from Mark Andreessen's blog BLOG.PHARMA.com

Why Some People Are Happier Than Others
from BeliefNet

P&G: Using the Past to Invent the Future
in BusinessWeek: In this excerpt from Roger Martin's new book, he discusses how P&G's A.G. Lafley balanced experience

from BoingBoing: Mathematics of waiting for the bus

CBS Adds On-Demand Music To Last.fm
from Forbes.com

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'
from cdnet

BusinessWeek Tech: Let Us Serve You
Web services are now so cheap and plentiful you may never buy software again

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Mark's Latest Great Posts: Ning, Great Customer Letter and Accounting

That's It, Public Accouting is Broken
I'd just like everyone to whom I owe money to know that you're never going to get it back. And I plan on booking the dollar value of your outrage as revenue in my current quarter.

Best Customer Service Letter Ever
Excerpt: Therefore, we have decided to offer every Woot customer who purchased a Zune from us on August 22, 2007... a $10 Woot credit towards any Woot order of $40 or more... We make this decision with every confidence that most of you will never want any of the crap we sell anyway.

Ning Passes 100,000 Social Networks
Mark's new company.