Humid Beings

photographers, about to send another potential job to the @narratively photographer referral list. Are you signed up? http://t.co/Fgt9cTf

52 - How Moneyball was the precursor to the Lean Startup methodology. http://letterly.net/tdavidson/F4b

@cindygallop attention to the course, golf etiquette, attention to good people = less tweeting. but more action shots would have been great!

@ifain someone has to get things done :)

#merightnow watching golf at #sagi11 -> http://flic.kr/p/a4Try3

Going Down, New York, NY http://bit.ly/nd78QI #selfpromo

Going Down, New York, NY

Going down, from the High Line. Going down, New York, NY, July 2011

RT @infoarbitrage: Some Start-Ups Pique Interest by Invitation Only http://nyti.ms/n7qhRM Interesting product+exclusivity=early adopter  ...

"Sometimes, it’s not the end of fleeting genius that should leave people wondering why. Sometimes, it’s the beginning" http://t.co/iruoQu3

@H_Forrest thanks!

@H_Forrest saw the SXSW panelpicker deadline was extended, but the website is not accepting submissions at the moment, FYI.

51 - The art of accounting for new business models, hidden deep inside S-1s. http://letterly.net/tdavidson/F2m

Just booked another @adoramarentals rental, great place to rent camera equipment.

@arctictony :)

@arctictony creative google+ circles -> http://t.co/XIwizT8

Out, Barbados http://bit.ly/mVpLlt #selfpromo

Out, Barbados

Headed out, Barbados. More images from Barbados on Flickr. Out, Barbados, July 2011

@schlaf #ownershiphasbeendead for awhile...

@agreenberg I don't like the headaches champagne inevitably gives me. but I like the celebration part :)

49 - CORRECTION - Why the asymmetric share is the key to Google+ http://letterly.net/tdavidson/F14

Love celebrating great things. But don't love the champagne that comes with it.

Working with the @MicroInterns http://bit.ly/qsxKAA #selfpromo

Working with the @MicroInterns

Recapping a great morning spent with the MicroInterns. Working with the MicroInterns, New Work City, NYC, NY, July 2011 Chris Dixon: … the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a “toy.” Yesterday I spent part of the morning working with a group of 12- and 13-year-old students…

Walking the Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine

Enjoying the scenic Maine seacoast by walking the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine. Photos and details below. Ogunquit, Maine from the Marginal Way, June 2011 Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine, June 2011 Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine, June 2011 Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine, June 2011 Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine, June 2011 Marginal…

Barbados

Selection of memories from Barbados. More on Flickr. Westward, Barbados, July 2011 Westward II, Barbados, July 2011 New York -> Bridgetown -> Tamarind Cove -> Bliss. More on Flickr.

New Hampshire, at a distance

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 2011 Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, June 2011 (Yes, maybe this is a photo blog again. We’ll see.)

Can OpenPhoto unbundle the photo industry?

Have you heard about OpenPhoto? Originally posted to the newsletter on June 21. Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, June 2011 Yesterday (June 20) I heard about OpenPhoto, a project to build an open-source photo storage and sharing service currently looking for funding on Kickstarter. Love for a couple of reasons: The…

For the love of projects: Quadruptychs

For the love of projects, I’m working on quadruptychs this month. Street in Motion, East Village, New York, NY Busy, from above. Soho, New York, NY I knew all about diptychs and triptychs, but had never heard of quadruptychs until I started shooting them earlier this month and went to…

Why you should try @Trunkclub.

Men, have you tried Trunkclub yet? Need new clothes? Highly recommended. Great customer experiences deserve to be shared. I found out about Trunkclub from Darren, and since I needed new clothes with the kind of style I wouldn’t find on my own without a lot of time dedicated to trying…

Fountain of Thought

Fountain of Thought, Washington Square Park, New York, NY Fountain of Thought, Washington Square Park, New York, NY Love reading about how Washington Square Park has changed over the years. Such a history to enjoy and embrace every time I walk through the park.

The Obama Presidency – A Look Behind the Scenes, by Pete Souza at The Leica Gallery

Recommended: a trip to the Leica Gallery to see a show of images from Obama’s Presidency by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer. The Obama Presidency – A Look Behind the Scenes, by Pete Souza at Leica Gallery Also recommended, especially if you can’t make it to the show,…

Entrepreneurs, what’s the biggest thing you didn’t know about finance when you started?

Tomorrow I’m teaching the first of two classes about the Essentials of Startup Finance at General Assembly. Help an entrepreneur out: entrepreneurs, what’s the biggest thing you wish you had known about finance when you started your company? Tomorrow I’m teaching the first class of my two-class series at General…

“It’s pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.”

Isn’t it always. Twisting in the Wind, New York, NY Drew Sievers: “It all comes down to who gets paid and who makes money,” said Drew Sievers, chief executive of mFoundry, which makes mobile payment software for merchants and banks. “You have banks competing with carriers competing with Apple and…

Are deals, distribution or data the key to “daily deals”?

Are deals, distribution or data the key to “daily deals”? Expressionism, New York, NY Originally posted to the newsletter on April 28. Sign up here. In an article about Yelp’s plans to go public despite the booming private market, a thought about daily deals: Mr. Stoppelman says he believes that…

How to Choose from over 16 Funding Sources and Support Structures for Early-Stage Businesses.

Thinking broader than angels, venture capitalists, accelerators and incubators, outlining over sixteen different types of support structures for early-stage technology businesses. Updated from the original post to the newsletter on Feb 24. The NY Times wrote an article a couple months ago called How to Choose an Incubator, breaking down…

Information, Intelligence, and Wisdom. There’s a business in every part of the stack.

Information -> Intelligence -> Wisdom. There’s a business in every part of the stack. Discussions, discussions. New York, NY A couple weeks ago I tweeted: Here’s what I meant by that. Information, intelligence and wisdom are not the same, but they feed into each other. For the sake of a…

Last tweets

Last tweet by @TimHetherington, great photojournalist killed in the Libyan conflict earlier this week. Sadly, Tim wasn’t the only photojournalist killed in the same attack. More about photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in the NY Times, Photoshelter, A Photo Editor, and Outside. Related reading, Cyberspace When You’re Dead.

The closest thing to venture fundrasing from the masses is a Kickstarter project.

The closest thing today to venture fundrasing from the masses is a Kickstarter project. A sneak peek inside the newsletter, originally posted on March 3. Way to Go, Richmond, Virginia, 2008. Part of “Workspaces” series. A couple days ago, I mentioned this on Twitter: I’ve paid attention to micro-vc, crowdfunding,…

The Missing Loop in Health Hacking

Health hacking technology and communities are all missing something. Today’s product and community diversity is a sign of immature products and value propositions, but tomorrow’s diversity will be a sign of competitive differentiation. A peek inside the newsletter, originally posted March 8. One thing I love about Ross Hill’s letter.ly…

“Half of social networking companies are overvalued; we just don’t know which half.”

Following up on the topic of the “private offerings” of Facebook et. al., explored deeper in my newsletter. GigaOm’s Structure Big Data 2011 #bigdataconf, New York, NY, 2011. Paul Kedrosky, Dear Warren, Here are the Overvalued Social Networking Companies: [Figuring out which social networking companies are overvalued] starts by recognizing…