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Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.
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Good Business
People
Way
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BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.
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Ideas
Play
Team
Lab
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A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.
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Zero
Creative
Ideas
Way
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The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.
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Creating
Findings
Tricks
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Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.
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Astrology
Believe
Typical
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Mormons know that its not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
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Enough
Knows
Spread
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Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
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Practise
Spread
Mormons
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I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.
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Astrology
Hardworking
Loyal
Stubborn
Typical
Capricorn
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At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.
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Needs
News
Pages
Front Page
Shop
Page
Post
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You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.
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Chance
Increase
Trying
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People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
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Citizens
Good Work
Second Class Citizens
Work Good People
Losers
Second-Class
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People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.
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Citizens
Class
People
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You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.
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People
Pieces
Want
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The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas
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Creative
Ideas
Math
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Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?
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Did You Know
Knows
Tyrannosaurus Rex
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A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
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Full Potential
Short Term
Incumbent
Web
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I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
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Entrepreneurship
Parallel
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People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.
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Massive
Scale
Remember People Way
Forwards
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People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late ’90s, it was a terrible way to share content.
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Mail
People
Way
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You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.
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Crush
Obsessed
Want
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It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
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Easier
Intimate
Readership
Life True Your
Imagined
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People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
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Cat
Emotion
People
Time Internet People
Cats
People Say
Same Time
They Say
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People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.
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Fans
Ifs
People
Celebrities
Tech
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I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.
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Missing
People
Thinking
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The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there’s a ton of high-quality things that don’t go anywhere.
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Quality
Matter
People
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The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.
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High Quality
Misconception
Truth Is
Ton
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If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.
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Ads
Banner
Heritage
Stuff
Best Great Look
Loved
Readers
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I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.
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Life Best Your
Content
Big Part
Connects
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One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
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Print
Word Of Mouth
Corollary
Distribute
In Print
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It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.
Jonah Peretti / Entrepreneur
Accounts
Blue
High Quality
Me Long Important
Twitter
All My Friends
Prefer
Ridiculously
Verified
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The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.
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Needs
News
People
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People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.
Jonah Peretti / Entrepreneur
Bunch
Site
Happens Look People
Look People Why
Front Page
Page
Partly
Stream
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I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.
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Ideas
Impact
Thinking
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I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.
Jonah Peretti / Entrepreneur
Big Impact
Spread
Lark
Passed
Shared
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