Bannières publicitaires et 80/20
Encore une application inattendue de la loi des 80/20 : une analyse Comscore (via Broadstuff) répartissant en cluster les internautes en
fonction de leur propension à cliquer sur les publicités…
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Archive for the month “October, 2009”
One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot http://bit.ly/PqRiJ
Home automation made easy http://twitpic.com/lrr09 #yam
50 Most retweeted users ever. CNN is only 49th. http://bit.ly/tBvoj
J’adore les chats : ça ne sert à rien. Mais c’est joli. http://bit.ly/nHOOc (via @Expertissim) #yam
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Great quote from the highly recommended Marginal Revolution about the fine line between brilliance and lunacy. The original quote is from an article in the NYT.
Speaking of dinner, when the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
told a friend, a Parisian doctor, that he wanted to meet a certifiable
lunatic, he was invited to the doctor’s home for supper. A few days
later, Humboldt found himself placed at the dinner table between two
men. One…
The wisdom of crowds…
A recurring theme these years is the Wisdom of Crowds meme, from the eponymous book by James Surowiecki: the average opinion of a great number of uninformed people is often better than the informed opinion of a few experts. .
The book is not short on examples to support its point of view, from
the weight of a cow at a farm show to the sales forecast at an IT
manufacturer. It even led to the creation of a wealth of companies
dabbling in prevision…
A fundamental thruth of Venture Capital: very, very often, we get it totally wrong.
All the incentives are there to make it more painful to believe in a company that doesn’t make it (Type I error) than to pass on a company that makes it big (Type II error). As a consequence, from the moment we receive a business plan, assuming we get excited by the company, most of the review process is focused on finding good reasons to say no.
And it is to be expected that sometimes we are…
Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr.com : Working hard is overrated
(via Bijan Sabet)
“When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard. We worked all
waking hours, we didn’t stop. My Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon and I were
talking about how hard we worked on our first startups, his being Site
Advisor, acquired by McAfee — 14-18 hours a day. We agreed that a lot
of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”.
Freaking out included panicking,…
Le génie et la folie
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Très belle citation sur le très bon Marginal Revolution au sujet de la limite très floue entre le génie et la folie. La citation est reprise à partir du New York…
La sagesse d’un parfait inconnu
La sagesse des foules
Un des thèmes récurrents de ces dernières années a été la Sagesse des Foules, une idée extraite du livre éponyme de James Surowiecki
: en moyennant l’opinion…
Le problème avec les certitudes
Une vérité fondamentale du capital-risque est que très, très souvent, on se trompe totalement.
Les incentives font en sorte qu’il est plus douloureux de croire en une société qui échoue (…
Travailler dur, c’est surfait
Caterina Fake, fondatrice de Flickr.com : Travailler dur, c’est surfait
(traduction KN, lien via Bijan Sabet)
“Quand nous construisions Flickr, nous travaillions très dur. Toute…
Travailler dur, c’est surfait
Argh. Should have read that before ordering my kindle… American plug ??? http://bit.ly/1bhmmF
Affaire #Trafigura – The Guardian conclut (fièrement) http://bit.ly/1bhCr2
For Mad Men Fans – RT @konbini Photo: BIG UP A BROOKS BROTHERS ! http://ow.ly/unUF
Allez comprendre… http://twitpic.com/li27d
Colliding signs from the future ? http://bit.ly/9VUdg
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