The Viamentis Blog

As usual, I seem to find the most cool things from c.l.l (with maybe the exception of programming.reddit.com and anarchaia.org). I this is a very smart idea: Netflix Prize: Review Rules. Apart from the interesting problem area, I think it’s a good business decision to make something of a “ugly problem” that you’re trying to solve, put a price on it and let the solutions trickle in, and pick what you want. Neat. Who says only your employees need to come up with the best solutions?

“Most people look at a company like Apple and think, how could I ever make such a thing? Apple is an institution, and I’m just a person. But every institution was at one point just a handful of people in a room deciding to start something. Institutions are made up, and made up by people no different from you.” – Paul Graham in A Student’s Guide to Startups

I found this nice post while reading through reddit. Good advice, I have to say.