Bogdan Stanciu

Startup IQ is going to the New York State Innovation Summit, hosted by FuzeHub and supported by NYSTAR. Register here nysinnovationsummit.com/register/

Mini-team meeting with the blessing of the Greek Gods. They gave us gyros and baklava. #RVA #Boston

From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Six brand-new Cybertrucks sitting in a lot in south Seattle, presumably after being unloaded from a freight train.

A bunch of unlovable cars in the receiving lot, just waiting to be matched with their unlovable men.

The post war system was built on the specific experience of how systems failed humans. Niceness was never the issue. Being human was.

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Just tell people you slept in a modern art museum installation.

It doesn't sound good at all. 😔 I can't think of one scenario where this is a positive situation.

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

>be me
>be employed
>company goes belly up
>be 57
>job market laughs in boomer
>invent idea to fix real problem
>get shat on by internet randos who think kicking down is a hobby
>still gonna make it anyway

Hey Richmond, here's your chance to get interviewed by a world famous former public radio personality!

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

UX so bad that it's illegal Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

Why would you laugh?

Most Americans do not comprehend what is about to happen.
The scale of this debacle. $24K health care expense for a couple making $53K after taxes.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Second day of Upstate NY tour took Startup IQ to Syracuse University, Jack Nolan's Alma Mater. Honest and eye-opening conversations with the youngest entrepreneurs from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and Blackstone LaunchPad.

"Bootstrap as long as possible" - Kevin Rose at Startup Grind AI Summit

Startup IQ's Upstate NY tour started strong with visits at NextCorps and Golisano Institute, fueled by some of Rochester's local favorites: Albunn Coffee House, Cafe Sasso, Locals Only, Java's, Sinbad's, Stever's, and The Frog Pond.

“There will be no federal takeover of Portland, Oregon.” 🔥

👀 Damn — @bynum.house.gov is. Not. Playing. Around.

The physicality of pushing Americans up against each other with the deployments to cities. It’s not like warfare the Pentagon prefers with technology, at a distance.

It’s about smashing social connection among citizens. Those who enforce, those who comply, those who suffer, those who rebel.

So exhausting..

after digging around on the internet, I have concluded that the most ethical smartphone to buy new is probably Fairphone, and tragically they don't ship to Canada

Filled under "I feel moved."

I like it when Paul Thomas Anderson is very clear about the content of his films.

Q: Can I expect to see any blood in this picture?
A: THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Q: Does your new film feature any battles? And if so, to what frequency?
A: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

The irony of not being able to take a good picture of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester NY.