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Photo by Lauren Larsen
Each of our guest speakers for the Making Things Happen 2013 Conference are truly remarkable women. One thing they all...
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“Ultimately, you need to be able to sell what you do.”
Elim Chew, Founder and President, 77th Street (S) Pte Ltd
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Happy Personal Finances: How to Create Your Most Kick-Ass Budget Ever
If you’re just following along now, here’s the quick update: I’m...
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So cool to see Sophia Amoruso of @nastygal on the cover of @entmagazine #inspired
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ivy-inspired asked: you're so posh. keep it up. chase your dreams and never look back. be an eagle, fly to freedom. live your life like a lollipop.
Thanks sir! But, how does one live their life like a lollipop? I am quite intrigued. Merry Christmas xo
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what up goblin valley
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A is for Autumn. B is for Blazer Buttons. (Taken with Instagram)
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
Dalila Goncalves - Kneaded Memory (2012)
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Studio Neat’s It Will Be Exhilarating: Indie Capitalism and Design Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
Studio Neat is Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt — two fellas who launched two products I own with very successful Kickstarter projects: the Cosmonaut, a fabulous iPad stylus, and the Glif, a tripod mount for iPhone. IWBE is a short book about what they’ve learned in the two years of being in business for themselves.
Don’t make a product because you want to quit your day job… Don’t make a product because you want to get rich.
Make something great because you care deeply about it. Make something because you stay awake at night thinking about it. Make something because you feel invigorated when you work on it, and anxious when you don’t.
Studio Neat is what you might call a “small batch business” — a company intentionally staying small so they can focus on the work they really want to be doing. (The authors quote Walt Disney from back in the day: “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”)
I picked up their book after seeing a few tweets about their XOXO talk. I particularly liked this bit: “Tell a story. People really do want to see how the sausage gets made.” The idea is that today customers want to feel connected to creators and they want to know where their products come from. This happens best when creators speak directly to their customers, tell stories “straight into the camera,” share lessons, insight, and cool bits of inspiration, and show their behind-the-scenes process(es). “The best way to promote your products and your company is to simply be active online. Do stuff. Make things. Say things. […] By putting things out there, consistently, you can form a relationship with your customers. It allows them to see the person behind the products.”
Dan Provost blogs over at The Russians Used A Pencil](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbw95jSN6a1qz6f4bo1_500.jpg)
Studio Neat is Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt — two fellas who launched two products I own with very successful Kickstarter projects: the Cosmonaut, a fabulous iPad stylus, and the Glif, a tripod mount for iPhone. IWBE is a short book about what they’ve learned in the two years of being in business for themselves.
Don’t make a product because you want to quit your day job… Don’t make a product because you want to get rich.
Make something great because you care deeply about it. Make something because you stay awake at night thinking about it. Make something because you feel invigorated when you work on it, and anxious when you don’t.
Studio Neat is what you might call a “small batch business” — a company intentionally staying small so they can focus on the work they really want to be doing. (The authors quote Walt Disney from back in the day: “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”)
I picked up their book after seeing a few tweets about their XOXO talk. I particularly liked this bit: “Tell a story. People really do want to see how the sausage gets made.” The idea is that today customers want to feel connected to creators and they want to know where their products come from. This happens best when creators speak directly to their customers, tell stories “straight into the camera,” share lessons, insight, and cool bits of inspiration, and show their behind-the-scenes process(es). “The best way to promote your products and your company is to simply be active online. Do stuff. Make things. Say things. […] By putting things out there, consistently, you can form a relationship with your customers. It allows them to see the person behind the products.”
Dan Provost blogs over at The Russians Used A Pencil
Typeverything.com - Art is Hard by Monaux.
“Writers and artists have always been self-conscious consumers and filterers of experience, saving it and using it for artistic purposes later on. Perhaps Facebook and Twitter and Instagram incline more and more of us to respond to our experiences as only artists once did — perhaps in that sense the optimistic view that all of us are becoming creators is really true. Though whether that’s a good thing or not, whether the moment tends to get lost in the anticipation of its digital representation — that bears thinking about…”
Alan Jacobs (via austinkleon)
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Things I must remind myself every day :)
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