What we’ve done from the beginning is keep a pretty simple philosophy, that Tumblr is this place where you can come and we have no right to say who you are or what you should look like. Tumblr declares war on the internet’s identity crisis | The Verge
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I caught up with the kind and talented Gabriel Flores this morning. Follow him on Instagram and Tumblr.
Continue readingI stumbled across your Tumblr after going down a rabbit hole during an unrelated web search and am absolutely in love with this theme. Is it custom or is it something I can buy? It is truly fabulous both its minimalism and functionality. Oh, and I’ve ended up buying half a dozen tracks by artists I was previously unfamiliar with while browsing your site. :)
Thanks for stopping by. My theme is a slightly modified version of the latest default theme for new Tumblr blogs these days. You can grab it in the Theme Garden under “Optica”.
Continue reading "I stumbled across your Tumblr after going down a rabbit hole during an unrelated web search and am absolutely in love with this theme. Is it custom or is it something I can buy? It is truly fabulous both its minimalism and functionality. Oh, and I’ve ended up buying half a dozen tracks by artists I was previously unfamiliar with while browsing your site. :)"A new fund and a new partner
Nine years ago, Todd and Santo decided to start Spark Capital. The idea: to be the very best partner to entrepreneurs as they get their startup going. They asked me, Alex and Paul to join and by the summer of 2005 we were in business with our first fund. Late last year, we announced our […]
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This weekend I set up our new Nest thermostats in our house. They are all on our network which means we can control them with any browser or mobile device. I set up a schedule and now they are doing their thing. The thing about the Nest is that it is a fun and important […]
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I met David Karp, the founder/ceo of Tumblr when he was 19. I was immediately taken with his passion and drive to create wonderful things. Those days, David was building within his consulting company called Davidville. My friend Fred Seibert made the intro and I’m forever grateful for that. Not too long after that David […]
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It’s amazing how much a small team can get done. (Consider David and Marco during the earliest days of Tumblr) The team is small, the balance sheet is tiny but productivity soars. Any and all decisions are solvable by getting everyone together in a room. That is because it’s literally easy to get everyone in […]
Continue reading "Getting through the muck"The “blah blah blah on steroids”
We often hear about new products that promise to beat the current market leader by being the “blah blah blah on steroids” I’m not a big fan of this strategy That doesn’t mean that the market leader isn’t vulnerable but it’s a question of the approach. Apple didn’t put a hurt on Microsoft desktop business […]
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I am really enjoying the “the everything store”, a book about Jeff Bezos and Amazon by Brad Stone. (I’m reading it on my new iPad mini retina which is an amazing tablet btw) Anyway back to the book. I am about halfway through it. It’s quite interesting to sneak behind the curtain and learn about […]
Continue reading "Amazon meetings"http://bijan.tumblr.com/post/61295817100/audio_player_iframe/bijan/tumblr_mt60m7b5kQ1qz4j35?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fbijan%2F61295817100%2Ftumblr_mt60m7b5kQ1qz4j35 Hold On We’re Going Home — Arctic Monkeys Fred’s Tumblr is on an Arctic Monkeys tear again which has infected me too. Here’s a cover by Alex and the guys. Original by Drake. Loving this. update: fixed broken link. enjoy.
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