October 2009
60 posts
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the...”
– Winston S. Churchill (via kari-shma)
10 examples of minimum viable products - Venture... →
tedr:
caterpillarcowboy:
“If Apple can launch a smartphone without Find or Cut-and-Paste, what can you cut out of your product requirements?” – Sramana Mitra
USV-backed foursquare uses Google Docs to collect customer feedback. No code, no maintenance.
Fliggo sells it before they build it.
Grockit puts up a notify-me-when-you-release form on steroids.
Auto e-commerce site uses manualation...
The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn’t Win →
mikehudack:
atencio:
William James once argued that every philosophic system sets out to conceal, first of all, the philosopher’s own temperament: that pre-rational bundle of preferences that urges him to hop on whatever logic-train seems to be already heading in his general direction. This creates, as James put it, “a certain insincerity in our philosophic discussions: the potentest of all...
How we got 18,000 beta users in 4 weeks
runitback:
We got 18,000 users in our 4-week private beta by emailing relevant bloggers demo codes for their readers. In a Hacker News thread about getting users there were some recommendations to start your own blog and build an audience. That sounds hard. It’s much easier to just borrow other peoples’ audiences when you need them.
Find small blogs (10k-50k subscribers) relevant to your...
“If you’re going to do something, do it. Go all in. Doing it half in makes no...”
– Seth’s Blog: Begrudging (via hiten)
“A lot of people divide their life into their educational stage and their work...”
– Paul Buchheit at Startup School ‘09 (via hiten)
Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC? →
mikehudack:evangotlib:
gbattle:
section9:
One of my ethics professors had a similar sentiment about his students and it went along the following:
Be nice to your A students, because they will thank you in their doctoral dissertation.
Be nice to your B students, because they will help you with yours.
Be nice to your C students, because they will be the ones who donate millions to the...
“If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you’re smart, surround...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via tmblg) (via hiten)
33 ways to get motivated →
hiten:
superamit:
“11. Avoid Energy Vampires
Naysayers, pessimists, braggers they all are sucking up your energy. Don’t get caught in such power games, avoid at all costs those energy leaks. Even if that means you’ll isolate more often. It’s better to do work in your own secluded realm than to try to resist to a diminisihing environment.”
“People are afraid of tax accountants, iPods, chiropractors, non-profits,...”
– Seth’s Blog: Fear of apples (via hiten) (via mikehudack)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
“After every major milestone, the company has to ask: what did we learn? Why...”
– Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) (via hiten)
“Great developers - not programming languages - build great products.”
– The Best Programming Language for a Lean Startup (via hiten)
In my opinion, the only people who ask about programming languages are those who don’t understand programming languages.
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This is usually true. As with anything, though, there are exceptions. There are...
“Ugly hacks aren’t all bad though — one of my favorite personal hacks was some...”
– Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. “Hacking” (via hiten)
“build less: underdo your competition”
– what #leanstartup means to me « Life of F Bi (via hiten)
shellen:
“One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.” - Milton Glaser http://j.mp/4sM3k
“I see this as a winning formula for segmenting plenty of existing markets:
1)...”
– Comment by Cindy Alvarez on Aaron Patzer preso - Lean Startup Circle | Google Groups (via hiten)
“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.”
– Anonymous
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Ghandi (via davemorin)
“The new foundation for scaling a large org is providing authentic value that...”
– Andrew Kortina
Read the full post entitled: Community and Camaraderie are the Foundations of 21st Century Business
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(via rahmin)
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in...”
– Abraham Lincoln (hat tip to Hiten) (via fuckfailgoawesome)
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held →
rahmin:
to deal with an uncertain future and still move forward, one should have “strong opinions, which are weakly held.”
Agreed!
Sobering Numbers Behind Our 9.8% Unemployment Rate
hiten:
bryc3:
15,142,000: People unemployed and looking for work-the highest number ever.
263,000: Jobs eliminated in September.
1,916,000: People unemployed in September because they have been laid off—the highest number in one month ever.
9,179,000: People who are working only part-time because they cannot find full time employment.
2,219,000: People who want work, but who are not...