Ben Parr
Ben Parr
Ben Parris an American journalist, author, venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is the author of Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention, a book on the science and psychology of attention and how to capture the attention of others. He is Co-founder and Managing Partner of DominateFund, a seed-stage venture capital fund. He was previously the Co-Editor and Editor-at-Large of Mashable and a Columnist and Commentator for CNET. In 2012, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 February 1985
CountryUnited States of America
Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.
There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.
Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.