February 2012
9 posts
“(Being an ugly duckling is not a bad thing. Microsoft would have been one, 3...”
– What Happens At Y Combinator
What They Can't Tell You: Starting Up Outside a...
“How can we be the next … ?”
Many of the questions and suggestions I’m hearing on this topic of “creating a startup hub” contain what appears to be a flawed premise. Rather than trying to create a hacker culture, most cities (that aren’t startup hubs) sound like they’re trying to culture hackers. Rather than inviting the kind of hackery...
Watch“Bootstrapping Survival Lessons” - my talk at SuperConf in Miami on February 25, 2012.
“The YC network, he says, now operates as a “distributed peer-to-peer...”
– Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation | Fast Company
“Why [did] the Google triumvirate work when so many others have failed? Its...”
– The Power of Three - Chief Executive Officer
“By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out...”
– Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer and explorer (2004)
Mount Everest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Maybe the reason we become entrepreneurs is a secret to us until we come...”
– MW
“And that’s the key. Are these small things really trivial or are they part...”
– How do you act on all that product feedback? - Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog
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