How Apple’s ‘1984’ Ad Almost Never Aired
Here’s the story of the Super Bowl commercial that rocked the world of advertising, even though Apple’s Board of Directors didn’t want to run it.
Source: mentalflossr
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Ahhh Tijuana… so close yet so far away!
Inspire. Imagine. Ignite: The Lean Startup
Excellent summary of ‘The Lean Startup’ by Tim Kutnick, especially his section “practical applications this week”, which totally apply to my startup now:
- Develop hypotheses for work and seek to prove/disprove
- Treat work like an experiment
- Develop 2 ways of doing my work (and A/B test)
- Accomplish tasks in small batches
Totally worth scanning through over-and-over to recap the principles.
Source: timkutnick
By @davidkarp, founder of Tumblr: “Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well”
Source: startupquote
@FantasyShopper: Combining social gaming and e-commerce to tackle the online-to-offline conversion problem. One of Europe’s hottest startups with $3.3m from Accel and NEA
@SoundCloud founders @alexanderljung and @ericw created this cool Story Wheel presentation about the history of their startup
The design DNA of @square (@Sequoia_Capital)
How @jack is focusing on making the internal work experience at @square clean, simple and well-designed with the goal of having the same experience reflected externally to its customers.
Great documentary of Steve Jobs in 1987 as he was building up NeXT from scratch. It shows Jobs excited and positive as well as ‘smoking’ as he dealt with the plethora of problems faced by startups trying to build a complex product and fit it into a specific market window while draining out the initial investment.
Nice implementation of sports & movement by Mike Harrison (@destill), freelance illustrator from the UK. Thx @abduzeedo
