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I agree they should sign exclusive deals with artists which would give them leverage in their negotiations with the record labels with an eye on the long-term hope of breaking that reliance on them.

They won't be able to get into concert tickets at the present time in any significant way due to the exclusive agreements between Ticketmaster and venues. Though maybe the could start with some smaller acts and venues and work their way up.

Live performances is where the money is for the artists which is why record labels are now signing acts up for complete deals which include not just the music rights but the concert and merch rights as well.

Edit: as somebody who has tried to buy tickets to a hot show on Ticketmaster the second they go on sale and watched the servers melt, it is Amazon that I would like to see get in the ticket game.

It is a plot point of Accelerando by HN user cstross. One of the more thought-provoking books I have read.

I get that on a lot of sites when I use Private Internet Access even from a US endpoint.

Not high brow but I loved the Once Upon a Time in China trilogy.

The examples given are for societies that are both incredibly smaller than the U.S as well as not yet reaching industrialization. I'm not sure they are applicable comparisons.

What cultures are those? Honest question.

Agreed. I work from home and as such I get to spend much more time with my children than I otherwise would however the cost is that some of that time my attention is going to be divided.

See the book Avagado Corp.

smile.amazon.com

Startups for the Rest of Us is one of my favorite as well. Lots of good tactical advice on there. If you find yourself looking for something that is more inspiration (at least in the early stages of your entrepreneurial journey) I highly recommend Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series:

http://etl.stanford.edu/

This was one of my talks that covers dropping out of college, a funny story about trying to figure our pricing, as well as goes over transitioning a business from charging for a product to charging for a service based on value:

https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcast/the-passion-and-perseve...

Bay Cities in Santa Monica and Gioia's in St. Louis are two of my favorite.

One thing I have found, and hadn't realized until I had left LA, is that the quality of the bread can really elevate the quality of a sandwich.

The Art of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri ended up playing a huge role a decade after I read it in how I approached sales and marketing.

From a more theoretical perspective Cosmos by Sagan had a huge impact on how I view life's big questions.

Really fast for rendering but slows my whole system when watching video.

The biggest drawback for me is that I have taken Chrome's PDF support for granted. I love being able open PDFs inside of the browser and then save them from there to whichever directory I choose. With Firefox I have to save a copy to the Downloads folder and open that in Preview prior to exporting a new copy to where I want to save it.

Also miss the print preview in Chrome.

We'll see how long with experiment lasts for me. I love how much easier Google has made my life over the years but I would like to move away from their browser.

Palm. A computer (some with wireless Internet) in your pocket!

They used invites for the Gmail rollout as well but maybe those immediately created accounts. I seem to remember invites being sold on eBay.

Enterprise at LAX has kiosks but every time I try to use one I end up having to go to the counter anyway. Possibly due to using a business travel agent but I'm not sure.

I think Hertz has a VIP feature for frequent renters where they can just walk right to the car.

My favorite as well. I don't have time to get through the whole thing every week but I do feel much better informed after reading it and it allows me to spare the vicious contempt that U.S. cable news has.

Like any bank account you're never going to be able to completely purge that data. The financial institution needs to keep the records not just for compliance (potential audit situations) but because all of your transactions did occur and tie to something else in their systems.

I would imagine that after the plan year is over (typically a calendar year but not necessarily) you'll stop getting emails. If they ever change 401(k) providers then your data as a terminated employee would not be moved over to the new recordkeeper.

The thing that is keeping from moving to Google Keep from Evernote is the web clipper. With Evernote I can easily clip a page (automatically removing the sidebar and other things not relevant to the article). That takes precedence over everything else that you listed.

If you can spare an hour I highly recommend listening to this talk that Tom Kelley of IDEO gave on innovation and identifying problems as part of Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders program:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/2054/Young-at-Heart-How...

The TLDR is to be aware of what is going on around you. He gives examples of that in action including a couple that stuck with me regarding the turnstiles at the Paris airport and children's toothbrushes. Things that are so obvious in retrospect but it takes stopping and observing in order to identify the problem.

My favorite quote from the talk, "Be childlike as often as possible. Be childish as little as you can."

(If you're looking to do something in financial services I think there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved and tons of opportunity over the next decade as demographics shift. Just think of what has happened in the past fifteen years. People used to do their banking in person. Now people even considering going to an ATM an inconvenience. Let's talk.)

I've been working on a series of content with this exact same title but it looks like it will have a different slant. I always get something of value out of all of Patrick's content over the years and this is no exception. Getting the first customers is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, thing for many entrepreneurs.

They probably feel like they didn't solicit that communication.

I developed a web app (with daily email updates to managers) to help small, remote businesses handle various operational things such as time off, expense reports, etc.

https://www.startopz.com

Accelerando is one of the most thought provoking things I have ever read.

Thanks. Will probably wait for LastPass to release the firefox plugin for 57 then. Will check Bitwarden again in a few months.

I'm not in love with LastPass so am curious as to what you don't like about Bitwarden?

What is your sales process going to look like? Figure out your requirements and it will make your search easier.

I really like Close.io for cold outbound sales. If you're doing social media then maybe look at Nimble. As someone else said you can get started for free with Hubspot. Intercom might be something to look at as well if your going for a more automated process.

You can obviously use Zapier to tie your software together so you can use best in class software for whatever processes you end up putting in place.

This was something I had mentioned on Twitter and Reddit off and on over the past couple of years. Too many times Ticketmaster's website craps out when tickets for a high demand concert go on sale. The way Amazon handles Black Friday with waitlists seems like a huge upgrade over hitting refresh 50 times on different computers in hopes of getting tickets (sometimes not even getting the page to load).

Probably lacking the ratio of explosions to character development that modern scifi movies and tv audiences demand.

That definitely doesn't meet our anonymity requirement. :)