An interesting list of Twitter accounts - being all the people that presented at last weeks @BlackboxVC progam ... https://twitter.com/jgphilpin/lists/blackboxvc/members - come follow along.

Remember this ? This is it playing >>>>

The Growth Of $1 Million Dollar Properties In San Francisco in the past 4 years. (Red is where the properties are)

Source : Citylab

1) The Importance Of People

2) Social Sales Is Not New, It's Thousands of Years Old

3) Publishing Is Dead? Long Live Publishing!

4) Publishing Lives - Under The Witness Protection Program

5) Our Personal Clouds

People - It’s An Internet of People ... and ‘things’ - things that are in the service of people.

This weeks article for Biz Catalyst - 'trending' as I type

The Atlantic writes about 'Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy' ... touching on a lot of points that I have held true for a while now. Good to see that the topic is getting focus.

Question : Is it OK if I work at home on Friday ?

Answer : No - you need to open and close the office.

Question : But nobody is in the office. Everyone is out in meetings except for two people taking the day off. 

Answer : You will be.

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#TrueStory

... Not mine - a meme starting to circulate ... I think it might catch on.

SharesPost said it called off the proposed Uber deal. 

A broker of private technology stocks recently called off a proposed deal to purchase shares of Uber and package them in an investment fund. The broker, Sharespost, cited a “lack of investor interest” in the shares, which a Bloomberg article attributed partly to terms requiring shareholders to keep their stake until Uber was acquired or went public, with no visibility into the company’s operations or finances.

... as applied to music.

Good Question !

An Hour Of Your Time

A Lego Guitar

Gender pay gaps for major U.S. occupations