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• Except-tional. “Startups are all about launching things that are not ready for prime time—because startups don’t live in prime time. You can always rush to make something ready if people like it. Except when you can’t.” - Evan William, Founder of Blogger.com, Twitter.com
• 10mph at Lagoon Theater, Aug 14 Almost 2 months after watching 10mph via Netflix and reviewing it, I receive an invitation to the Mpls screening on Aug 15. Kudos to Hunter and Josh for keeping the buzz going on their film.
• RE: Aquarium for your toilet  Finally, Fish-n-Flush is bringing the toilet aquarium to market! This proves: if an idea’s good enough, and you wait long enough, someone else will do it for you. The aquarium toilet is one of my longest held It’d-Be-Cool-If ideas. I still remember the moment 15yrs ago when the idea called me. Something about the fish bringing
• Lunch with NickelNuts today reminded me … Lunch with NickelNuts today reminded me there’s still a huge need to aggregate communities of affinity (especially my favorite combo: affinity + geography). The tools we have today still aren’t mature enough to make this easy. This isn’t about creating a new silo. It’s about herding cats.
• Minimum Purchases Violate Credit Card Merchant Agreements “Always honor valid Visa cards, in your acceptance category, regardless of the dollar amount of the purchase. Imposing minimum or maximum purchase amounts is a violation.” As always, thanks go to Consumerist.com. The excuse I hear for this behavior is the credit card’s transaction costs (~3-5% of the transaction + a few pennies per transaction + a