Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Dec 12, 2009, 10:07 am
I love the concept of failure. I look for it in the people I hire. I look for it in the people that I admire. Failure, for a lack of a better word, is good. But is it always? Can there come a point ...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Nov 25, 2009, 11:18 pm
I just finished reading Seth Levine’s post $5k to Pitch Your Business? Who Falls For This? Which is about the 10th(?) post/tweet I have read about investment groups requiring companies to ̶...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Nov 10, 2009, 11:55 pm
Have you heard of the new dance craze that all the kids are doing? Its call the Crowdsource, and it goes like this: Throw your hands in the air and scream “Man! We are super busy!” Shake ...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Nov 8, 2009, 7:57 pm
Night before last I went to see the Pinback show with my friend Eric Marcoullier . I almost didnt go. After all, I had just finished eleven straight days of travel, which included meetings in NYC, sp...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Oct 30, 2009, 2:51 pm
My grandmother died yesterday. It wasnt sudden, nor was it a surprise. Doesnt mean it was less sad. I had been traveling, most recently speaking at TribeCon in New Orleans, when my mom called to say...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Oct 26, 2009, 3:54 pm
Over the past few weeks, I have been heads down focusing on getting my new project funded, getting the tech team moving in the right direction, and getting customers. All with an eye towards launch. I...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Oct 19, 2009, 6:59 pm
I bleed a lot. Not in a horrible, unhealthy physically or mentally way, but it just seems that I often find new cuts on my arms, feet, legs. Now, I do live with animals, and so I can, for example, at...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Oct 11, 2009, 2:34 am
I have a lot of people I like having as friends. Many of them write or curate blogs. Often they comment on, point to, reblog, etc things that they find inspiring. Usually, the link, video or picture i...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Sep 24, 2009, 1:41 am
Words have power. We say them and expect their meanings to resonate. Mostly, the words we choose probably connote the meanings we are trying to convey. But, sometimes, words have so many varied meanin...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Sep 20, 2009, 1:39 am
I like to be inspired. I consume words like my life depends on it. I watch people relate their stories. I listen to others successes…and failures. I read. A lot. Blogs. Books. Opinion Pieces. ...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Sep 18, 2009, 1:48 pm
“I just installed Lijit.” When people ask me how I came to be working at Lijit, thats the answer I give them. “I just installed the widget.” From that first outreach from Tar...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Sep 7, 2009, 9:36 pm
Ive been reading the book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, which I picked up after Brad wrote a post suggesting reading Ian’s blog post about the book. ...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Sep 6, 2009, 1:05 pm
Ever since I was a kid, I called my grandmother Babu. Its a bastardization of the Russian word for grandmother, but my mom called her grandmother Babu, so it was something we just did. In a country w...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 31, 2009, 4:20 pm
Im fat. I took a look at the first post I ever wrote the other day. Entitled Battle of the Belly – Day 1, it proclaimed my desire to lose weight. Then I looked at my second post, Where Have You...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 30, 2009, 10:40 am
Last year some time, perhaps around SXSW, I was introduced to a woman I had started to hear a lot about. She was described as someone who had started a documentary, sort of on a whim, and had collect...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 28, 2009, 12:08 am
There are themes in my life that I keep coming back to. Thoughts that I have had for years and years, but havent been able to either articulate or formulate. Yet. Yesterday, I wrote about bidirection...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 26, 2009, 6:51 pm
Over a year ago, I wrote a post titled Business Development in a Web 2.0 World. I wrote about the importance of relationships in today’s business dealings. I wrote: To get, one must give, and t...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 16, 2009, 10:07 am
I just walked out of a comic book store for the first time in probably 20 years. It took me 30 minutes to find the place, and once I got there, I felt so out of place. How could this be? I used to ri...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 11, 2009, 7:05 pm
Yesterday I was on a call with a potential business partner for Lijit. With me on the call was one of our product people. We were going down a specific path with this partner, who on the call threw u...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 7, 2009, 12:10 pm
Well, not quite. Over at FollowFridays.com, you will see an implementation of JustSignal’s FollowFriday tracker. Its purpose is to make it easier to send #followfriday tweets and, more importan...
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Micah B. posted an article on Learn to Duck - Aug 7, 2009, 1:48 am
Today was Techstars Demo/Investor Day. The ten Techstars companies each presented their products and progress over the course of the summer. For some, their progress was stunning, for others, it was ...
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