I'm Always Shocked When Nice Things Are Said About Me Online...
I've had a long, draining week, and this nice post on why people should follow me on Twitter made my friday. It'd be too insufferable to repeat the nice things Liz said about me, but here's the five-questions-with-Sarah part:
"Laughs at: My husband’s corny jokes
Hopes: Everyone in the US reads my new book — less for royalties and more to raise awareness about the amazing entrepreneurs in the emerging world.
Thinks: About work 24/7
Reveals: I had a weird dream where George Clooney was helping me poison Hitler last night
Dream Coffee Date: Pony Ma (CEO of Tencent, the third largest internet company in the world), Larry Ellison, Margaret Atwood or Paul Kagame (president of Rwanda). A weird range I know…
Is Inspired By: Truly great entrepreneurs — that’s why I travel the world to find them"
I've always hated Follow Friday because there's no sense of why you should follow someone, and frequently it feels out of obligation because someone said it about you. This is a nice feature I'll definitely check out every week.
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An unforgettable portrait of the emerging world's entrepreneurial dynamos Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky is the story about that top 1% of people who do more to change their worlds through greed and ambition than politicians, NGOs and nonprofits ever can. This new breed of self-starter is taking local turmoil and turning it into opportunities, making millions, creating thousands of jobs and changing the face of modern entrepreneurship at the same time. To tell this story, Lacy spent forty weeks traveling through Asia, South America and Africa hunting down the most impressive up-and-comers the developed world has never heard of....yet.
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Sarah Lacy is an award-winning reporter who has covered high-growth entrepreneurship for more than fifteen years. She is the founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of PandoDaily.com, the site-of-record for the startup ecosystem. She lives in San Francisco.
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Are you shocked because it's online for all the world to see or shocked because they are nice things? If it's the latter, we might need to have a chat.
(Some people deserve to have nice things said about them!)
Posted by: Paul Strobl | February 04, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Hello Sarah - I agree with you about how people are using Follow Friday, I see people just listing names and expecting us to either blindly follow their lead, or click on the 20 names they listed to see if we would like to connect. Umm. Who has time?
Thanks so much for being our first #FF and being such a good sport with the fun questions.
Can't wait to read your book (Liz has promised me a copy!). My husband does a lot of business in Asia so I may have to fight him for first dibs.
Posted by: Elena Verlee | February 05, 2011 at 09:56 AM