jack: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling http://t.co/29QDup148W

joewallin: Weekend Read: Time to Advertise Your Private Offering? Not So Fast http://t.co/keFNN6lWCF

yeeguy: Top 10 Culture Hacks for Startups http://t.co/ZZFwdrkB7V

pkedrosky: VC partnerships: It's all about the partners, not the partnership http://t.co/xLBivv1Y7C /cc @msuster @bfeld @danprimack

Pv: KPCB Internet Trends 2013 http://t.co/Us1y6gB6X1

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, and turning Bob and Harvey Weinstein into giants. How did Quentin Tarantino, a high-school…

Sad to see Cory Booker's startup Waywire pivoting to "Pinterest for video" after starting with much bigger ambitions. Prediction: they'll struggle because video discovery just isn't a venture scale business.My previous role leading product at YouTube put me in position to see a lot of video…

aweissman: So much great reading this morning: "Why liberal arts education matters" from @chaddickerson http://t.co/XG0HOrSa

graysky: Tetris! RT @bchemel: If you are of a certain age, you will not be able to watch this video without starting to twitch http://t.co/S3hZI8MI

tristanwalker: this is so good -- Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise http://t.co/2A6ryIuI via @techcrunch

maplebutter: Things users don't care about http://t.co/Q3n7Rqjp <- So true. Great reminder.

jennifer: This is a PDF with FOUR HUNDRED PAGES of the best Quora Answers from 2010-2012. (!!!!!) http://t.co/o3B3j9bs

US + international: +1-212-796-6890 SE + international: +46-21-480-0920 Business hours 3 am-11:30 am EST (Mon-Fri). Ramblings from the Pingdom team about the Internet and web tech There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but…

sferik: curl -L http://t.co/eXavaTG9 | sed s/code/company/ To all my homies who work at GitHub, please don't take it personal. I still love y'all.

cdixon: "Why dogs at work and yoga aren’t culture" http://t.co/umpl0Xi2 via @cjc

andrewchen: New blog post: Retention causes virality, and vice versa http://t.co/pu3q5tTn

In this excerpt from The Happiness Diet, discover how Procter & Gamble convinced people to forgo butter and lard for cheap, factory-made oils loaded with trans fat. Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers, canals, and…

kottke: 99 life hacks to make your life easier http://t.co/4zB3GsWI

trammell: What really happens when a city makes its transit system free? http://t.co/0WWrlQp2 via @entropealab

pivotallabs: The inside story of how Pivotal Tracker was built for agile collaboration: http://t.co/2AN3G8yS

davemcclure: RT @Techdirt: House Republican brief (later *retracted*) -- Copyright Law Destroys Markets; Time 4 Real Reform: http://t.co/kUAILyPq

_eirik: Mystery of disappearing bees solved: http://t.co/bt0nh3nE

Our patent system is a mess. It's a fount of expensive litigation that allows aging companies to linger around by bullying their more innovative competitors in court. Critics have suggested plenty of reasonable reforms, from eliminating software patents to clamping down on "trolls" who buy up patent…

adeoressi: Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? http://t.co/r33KZyny via @techcrunch

asmartbear: New Post! (Plz RT) - How do I raise prices? - http://t.co/FwYUE4M4

cdixon: Thoughtful investment strategy RT @yegg Takeaways from three years of angel investing http://t.co/tdUBv5Na

This is the third post in the MBA Mondays series on People. The number of people you have in your company at any time is a very important part of getting the company building process right. Too many and you will slow things down, burn through too much cash, and increase management overhead for no…

Acquisitions can add to your earnings, speed your entry into new markets, and help you acquire intellectual property more quickly. But like a marriage, acquisitions should never be decided on a whim. M&A advisor Marty Wolf offers his advice on how to create a lasting union. I meet a lot of owners of…

garrytan: RT @farnamstreet: Is reading fiction good for you? http://t.co/NcGQV3aR Fiction is like an empathy simulator. Guess I should log some hours

andrewchen: great read. Puzzling outcomes in A/B testing http://t.co/TbfYnoBo

wa8dzp: Steve Crocker:’Where Did the Internet Really Come From?’: http://t.co/jUi7S6qe Must read history lesson by one of the key players.

rakeshmad: @mcuban Boston U calculated cost of patent trolls: $29 billion! http://t.co/qPMXt5ji

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act in January. The “blackout” of Web sites to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in January was an unprecedented show of Internet solidarity against bad legislation. But with new net-threatening bills like ACTA and CISPA popping…

So, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (aka the “JOBS Act” … nice touch) is afloat and headed to the Senate for almost certain approval. In mechanical terms, the “JOBS Act” is a “legislative package,” i.e., a series of six interrelated bills affecting startup businesses. If (when) approved,…

Increase your conversion and improve customer retention. Have you ever logged into your analytics account and noticed how your traffic and pageviews are up? And when you notice that your pageviews have gone up, you probably get excited and try to figure out what caused it to go up, right? But when…

How Much Does An Employee Cost? (Click Here for a PDF Version of This Article) Employment costs fall into several broad categories: Recruiting Expenses. Finding technically qualified people who can function effectively in a rapidly growing start up venture is not easy task. In an earlier column we…

Increase your conversion and improve customer retention. One way to analyze acquisition strategy and estimate marketing costs is to calculate the Lifetime Value (“LTV”) of a customer. Roughly defined, LTV is the projected revenue that a customer will generate during their lifetime. In this graphic…

James Altucher is a great public speaker. And today on his blog he shares his tips on how to be a better public speaker. Ironically, I am using many of them though for me #3 comes with my accent. The mistake I often make — #7. I will pay more attention to that next time. My one tip — use Keynote if…

You know you’ve done something right with broccoli when the person you made it for describes it to someone else the next day as “better than biting into a steak.” Those were Craig’s words and they were a marked change from the first words he uttered about the broccoli, before he bit in: “You made…