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by samd 17y ago
According to research cited in 37 Signals' Rework entrepreneurs that have failed previously are no more likely to succeed again than first-time entrepreneurs. I think far too much business and start-up advice is nothing more than anecdotes
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Under 280 Slides you might want to mention Cappuccino, their open source web framework; it's probably a lot more useful to startups than their presentation app.
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The Selfish Gene was probably the most important book I ever read. It fundamentally changed my understanding of the world.
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Remember Joel's article about Amazon versus Ben & Jerry's. 37 Signals is in the Ben & Jerry's camp, and companies in that camp can take it slow because they are in an established market. Companies in the Amazon camp can't take it sl
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It was during troubleshooting, I couldn't get my dual monitor configuration to save unless I launched the config menu as sudo from the command line. Of course it didn't tell me this was the problem either.
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A regular user should never have to go to the command line to do anything, but I can't seem to avoid that with Linux.
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You know what they say about spending other people's money. There seems to be a huge opportunity for a website like ChallengePost to get local governments to post IT contracts online.
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Someone should just make an app that gives you deals and coupons to local stores and take all the potential ad revenue away from these guys. Maybe Yelp should solicit the small business owners to offer discounts to people who are browsing Y
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by samd 17y ago
37 Signals, Fog Creek, Mint, can you even be a successful web company without a blog and an audience?
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It's sort of a paradox. If the accomplishment was notable enough to be awarded then the award was superfluous, and if the accomplishment was not notable it doesn't deserve an award.
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They are already famous because the research they did to earn a Nobel Prize made them famous.
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In other news, it gets bright outside when sun appears in sky.
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The general formula is: this worked for me, therefore this will work for everybody. I value their experiences and opinions, but sometimes they overlook all the confounding factors that made their situation unique. Of course, if they didn't
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Maybe the pressure of having to present something tangible with only 3 months of ramen noodles makes people reach for the low-hanging fruit.
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by samd 17y ago
There's a difference between asking someone else to do something and doing it yourself. Don't listen to people who tell you what you can't do.
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You don't need to see uplifting stories about people pursuing their dreams, you need to watch movies about kicking ass, like Gladiator or 300. Or maybe you need to watch uplifting stories about people pursuing their dream of kicking a lot o
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by samd 17y ago
Here's a better test: if you listen to people who tell you what you can't do you probably won't be a good founder.
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by samd 17y ago
I wonder if different types of apps are suited to different frameworks. Is Cappuccino robust enough to recreate most desktop apps on the web?
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by samd 17y ago
"Like most internships, these roles are unpaid." Apparently he hasn't read Joel on Software: "I need to clarify something about internships in computer science and software development. In this day and age, in this country, it is totally
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by samd 17y ago
I think this article is more accurate: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-t...
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Wikipedia, Notability, and Open Source Software(ubuntard.com)
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This why we need a tax on unhealthy, processed foods and drinks and subsidies on healthy foods. The Dollar Menu should be the Five Dollar Menu and Subway should have the Two Dollar Footlong.
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So they found the missing shade of blue!
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There is no distinction between individual and environment and the causality between the two is bidirectional, rendering the question moot. You are definitely on to something.
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I don't think so, I haven't really made any claims about how much of their behavior is situational versus dispositional. I'm just saying that disposition plays some role.
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Behaviors are caused by physical things, namely brain states, so it's perfectly reasonable to attribute a category of behavior to a physical characteristic of the brain. If people who behave fundamentally differently than others aren't phys
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"In fact, the market thought it was a terrible idea: Our stock promptly lost 80 percent of its value, putting our market cap at about $28 million. It’s worth pointing out that this was about $40 million less than the cash that we had in th
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How can you blame one thing on the slow sales when there are so many confounding factors? If a lack of in-store sales is the primary culprit that means that hundreds of thousands of people show up at the store having never heard of the iPho
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Here's why: The N1 is not on Verizon. The N1 came out after all the people waiting for an iPhone-like device on Verizon had already bought a Droid.
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Author poses question with obvious answer. Author gives obvious answer.

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