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This article by Todd Wasserman from Mashable explain very well why Facebook IPO sounds so colorless.

Well, that was anticlimactic.

After all the hullabaloo about Facebook’s IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere $0.23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens after Procter & Gamble announces a more absorbent type of Pampers.

Yet it shouldn’t be all that surprising that Facebook’s opening day on the NASDAQ had all the excitement of a Matlock rerun. While no one knows exactly why Facebook landed with such a thud, there are a handful of good reasons that the company got poked by Wall Street.

See the full article to understand what Todd Wasserman are talking about. Click on the link above.

This is a great story by E.B. Boyd from Fast Company.

Is Facebook worth the $100 billion or so its pending IPO suggests it is? Who the good gracious knows. But one thing we can all be certain about is how the social network has radically changed people’s behavior and expectations online in the eight short years since it was a nary more than a twinkle in the eye of its baby-faced founder(s). Those changes have had the monumental impact of facilitating the formation of entirely new industries and dramatically shifting the way brands market themselves online.

There are things we do online today, that we take so much for granted that we forget that some of them didn’t exist even as recently as two years ago. And others were so radical they inspired outright rebellions when they were first introduced. And yet all of these things are not only commonplace today, they are the presumed paradigms. To operate any differently would seem downright odd.

If past is prologue, we’re confident Facebook will continue to innovate in the years to come, thereby continuing to transform how individuals and businesses interact online and creating a whole new set of economic opportunities. Whether that translates into enough revenue to merit a $38 share price, we’ll leave up to the number-crunchers on Wall Street. For now, however, we want to pause in this brief respite before the Nasdaq frenzy slated for tomorrow to pay homage to a few of Facebook’s game-changing innovations.

See the full version clicking on the link above.

In a new book, Howard Rheingold says social networks are changing the way we think BY STEVEN CHERRY // FRI, APRIL 27, 2012

TIM FERNHOLZ
GOOD Business editor

Shane Gring grew up playing with Legos and building tree forts; there was no question that he would study architecture when he arrived at college. But after he graduated in 2009, the collapse of the economy and the housing market left him without work. He signed up for a stint with Americorps, never imagining that what he saw as a career detour would spawn a new business combining his passion for architecture with affordable housing and sustainable building.

By Gordon Hui, from Fast Company

It is a very useful article for entrepreneurs. I’ve summarized it. 

What separates the great innovation organizations from the good ones? Simply put, it’s the ability to account for what I call the “pipeline paradox.”

Once a company decides on the ideas it wishes to pursue, it must invest more time, people, and strategic thinking to get them to market; this inverse relationship between number of ideas and the amount of resources is the pipeline paradox.

To better account for the pipeline paradox, corporate innovators should follow these steps:

1.) Begin with the end in mind.

2.) Be clear about the goals of your pilot.

3.) Figure out a way to turn a profit in the short term.

4). Read the full article 

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Today is Friday. Nice day to think about bikes. It is an old post from Singletracks, a good source of inspiration. Have a nice ride.