Shareables

"There is no answer to The Struggle, but here are some things that helped me."

-Ben Horowitz

Being an entrepreneur is not an easy task. There may be good times, but there are probably going to be way more bad times. 

"But you knew the job was dangerous when you took it. Everybody makes mistakes. Every CEO makes thousands of mistakes. Evaluating yourself and giving yourself an “F” doesn’t help.

Remember that this is what separates the women from the girls. If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If you don’t want to be great, then you never should have started a company."

A similar philosophy could be applied to many difficult situations in life.

"Following a jam-packed beta test and a jaw-dropping $4.2 million seed round, Ark people search is open for sign ups…at least for the next three days.

Ark lets you sift through profiles on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other services to help you find out which of your high school classmates live in New York, see which friends are single, and connect with strangers who share your interests by layering up to 30 characteristic filters.""

"In less than 3 days, an idea became reality, something that would be seen by people all around the world. So, like I said, it was just a normal day here at Facebook."

Buffer gained about 20k users this month, and has some more big updates coming up.

Is individual scheduling of updates in our near future?

via TechCrunch

"Over the past few years I must have heard the phrase ‘everyone is a publisher nowadays’ a thousand times or more. It’s largely accurate, due to the rise of social media, but I think we are mainly ‘curators’, as opposed to ‘publishers’."

These are some great tips from Chris Lake (@lakey) on how to create (and curate) an awesome Twitter or blog feed. 

I'm especially intrigued by this one:

*Try to avoid the obvious

"I don’t tend to share Mashable links because so many other people do. There’s not much point in sounding like a broken record. Instead, I try to find eye-opening posts on niche blogs. Mine the gold."

My personal favorites are "blow bubbles with straw into your drink" at the mention of the "tech bubble" and "take 100 billion drinks" at the mention of "the 100 billion dollar question."

"It's safe to say Americans have an obsession with mobile devices."

Not really the most revolutionary study...

"Scroll Kit provides users with what’s basically an empty canvas on which they can place anything — text, pictures, whatever — and with one click publish it to the web. The product goes beyond most WYSIWYG web editors, allowing users to control pretty much every pixel of a page and rearrange page elements at will. While the tool proves that you don’t need to know how to code to build something beautiful, the real point is to show that even if you do know how to code, that doesn’t mean you will be able to build a great website."

What is this world coming to??

..."8 times the total annual GDP of Sierra Leone"

Facebook the world's largest social network, is poised to write history Friday when it makes its stock market deb -- Nah, just kidding this isn't that type of story.

Thank goodness the Huffington Post is having fun with this! 

Here's an iPhone app for those moments when you're wondering, "Okay, I've got some free time right now — what should I do?"

This is way cooler than a tweet saying "Hey followers, what should I do right now?" because, frankly, they don't care what you do.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has developed something of a reputation for cutting out business partners as his company rose to prominence.