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7 Legal Documents for your Startup (click for article)

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:06:05 -0600

7 Legal Documents for your Startup (click for article) :

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Teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 (click for article)

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:06:05 -0600

Teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 (click for article) :

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Above are slides based off of Pixar’s Ed Catmull’s...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:05:05 -0500

Above are slides based off of Pixar’s Ed Catmull’s (president and cofounder) speech, Pixar: Keep Your Crisis Small, at the Entrepreneurship Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

via ~ speakerdeck.com

"Student-loan debt is “actually worse than a bad mortgage,” [Thiel] has said. “You have to get rid of..."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:10:05 -0500

“Student-loan debt is “actually worse than a bad mortgage,” [Thiel] has said. “You have to get rid of the future you wanted, to pay off all the debt from the fancy school that was supposed to give you that future. ~Megan on Thiel.”

- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/peter-thiel/8696/

Quotes “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:18:05 -0500

Quotes

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”

- Steve Jobs [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:26:05 -0500

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

"The real disruptive threat is to the hundreds of institutions that emulate the elite few at the top...."

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:39:11 -0500

“The real disruptive threat is to the hundreds of institutions that emulate the elite few at the top. Many of them lack the prestige to hold off for-profit competition and the money that the elites can spend on online curriculum. But their challenge isn’t fundamentally one of money: online tutorials don’t have to be expensive to be effective, as the open-to-all Khan Academy has shown. The much greater challenge for traditional universities and colleges is changing their teaching traditions. Full-time faculty members must not only assent to the inclusion of online learning in the curriculum, they should lead it. Even profit-driven consumer electronics companies tend to respond too slowly to disruptive innovation. Faculty-led institutions need all the time they can get. Notwithstanding the tough economy, now is the time to invest in online learning innovation. “Made-in-Japan” once meant “cheap.” Will the majority of traditional universities and colleges be ready when “online education” means “high-quality learning?””

- Why You Should Root for College to Go Online - Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring - Business - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)

Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google (Click to View)

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:16:05 -0500

Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google (Click to View)

Imagine K12′s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:06:05 -0500

Imagine K12′s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education With Technology (techcrunch.com)

A very memorable video of Salman Khan (Khan Academy) TED talk....

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:05:06 -0500

A very memorable video of Salman Khan (Khan Academy) TED talk.

The two ways to build a product, according to Bezos (click for article)

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:05:05 -0500

The two ways to build a product, according to Bezos (click for article) :

Image by niallkennedy via Flickr

“There are two ways to build a product. The first: a company starts with their strengths and builds to the needs of the consumer. The second: a company starts with the needs of the consumer and builds (into) the strengths of the company.” Jeff Bezos.

via tomasztunguz.com

RubySource: Everything About Ruby On Rails Development and Database Programming (click to view)

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:15:06 -0500

RubySource: Everything About Ruby On Rails Development and Database Programming (click to view)

Four tips for learning how to program (click for article)

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:10:05 -0500

Four tips for learning how to program (click for article)

MIT's $1000 House Project (click to view project)

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:05:06 -0500

MIT's $1000 House Project (click to view project)

With Limited Opportunities to Move, Many Senior Professors Feel Stuck

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:53:10 -0500

With Limited Opportunities to Move, Many Senior Professors Feel Stuck:

infoneer-pulse:

At some point in many professors’ careers, they want to move.

They want to upgrade to a more-prestigious university, a bigger salary, and better facilities. Some professors want to go where research collaborations are more plentiful. Others want to get away from toxic politics in their current departments.

But in the wake of the recession, this once tried-and-true method of recasting an academic career now eludes many faculty members. Faculty mobility has been restricted as colleges, particularly public institutions, cut programs and positions in response to budget cuts, while spending more judiciously on new hires. Older faculty are lingering in their positions rather than retiring.

» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

Experts Explain: How To Manage Student Loans. via Smart Money

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:39:06 -0500

Experts Explain: How To Manage Student Loans.

via Smart Money