So going to get one as my new laptop. Might have to invest in a wheelbarrow though.
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Ironically, one of the reasons that many men don't seek the help and support they need is that they are too busy looking after everything else in their life - their career, their startup, their partner, their children etc that they end up relegating their own problems into last place on their To Do List and if you are anything like me, the last thing on your to Do List never gets done.
There is a stigma attached to mental health issues that does make it incredibly hard to speak up. People do think that they will be seen as 'weak', 'lazy' or their issues are not important enough to bother anyone else. Anyone in the room that heard that talk recognised that Greg was the opposite - strong, brave and dealing with the issues without losing the essence that makes him, him.
This seems to implicitly support the 'poor' in a rather patronising way. Rich person pays for kid to come to dinner. Poor person gets gift of education.
Wonder who would bid if it was rich person gets to pay for poor person's kid to go to dinner and rich kid gets 0?
'With this purchase you are activating your VIP membership' is smaller and in black. Incredibly easily overlooked.
It is possible that the JustFab UI designers aren't very good and have made a terrible mistake but the overall look and feel of the rest of the site would suggest that they have put a LOT of thought into steering their prospective customers down a very clear route to purchase and know EXACTLY what they are trying to do here.
Matias, this phenomenon is known as the “Eisenberg Uncertainty Principle.” A movie fan cannot know whether a character is played by Jesse Eisenberg or Michael Cera with any degree of confidence until he observes the whole movie. This is because the parts played by these two actors can only be accurately modeled by a complex wave-like function. Cinematic physicists are not sure, but it seems likely that, for any given movie, the part of the geeky outcast is played by both Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera simultaneously. Only when you watch the movie does the waveform collapse and you observe one or the other actor.
Please don't forget we have a relatively high ticket price a finite number of places and very significant fixed and variable costs. This is not a software business.
We also try hard to incentivize early booking and offer discounts to encourage this so the average ticket price is significantly lower than $2,500. (Tickets cost $1,800 at the moment and we have sold almost 3/4 of them.
In most cases they are though we may get asked to not release a video to the public if a speaker has said something that they wish they hadn't, in one case a speaker discussed a company that they then started teaching an MBA class on and realized that the students could just watch the video instead of doing the classes, someone was once very unintentionally indiscreet about a co-founder and some investors...
We try to respect the wishes of the speakers.
If you have been to BoS you would know how community minded it is. It takes a huge amount of work to put something like BoS on and to be honest, we think we do a pretty good job of hosting and producing an event that is both very different and refreshingly uncommercial in outlook.
We also happen to believe that far too many people spend their time as entrepreneurs telling other people how hard they work etc, and that frankly is not healthy. This is also a little 'tongue in cheek'.
If they can deliver what they say with $100,000 then the fact that they now have 10x that probably means you don;t need to contribute to see the benefit.
Mea culpa.
It was at Business of Software 2010, not 2011.
You can get a transcript of the talk if you don't have time to watch the full hour here: http://thebln.com/2011/09/eric-ries-the-lean-startup-the-mos...
This year's event takes place in Boston 24-26th October. (I run it) http://businessofsoftware.org/
A mathematician and an engineer are on a desert island. They find two palm trees with one coconut each. The engineer shinnies up one tree, gets the coconut, and eats it. The mathematician shinnies up the other tree, gets the coconut, climbs the other tree and puts it there. “Now we’ve reduced it to a problem we know how to solve.
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are staying in a hotel. The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed. Later, the physicist wakes up and smells the smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, and so forth, extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed. Later the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, “Ah, a solution exists!” and then goes back to bed.
http://thebln.com/2010/10/professor-youngme-moon-business-of...