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Bill Gates on Warren Buffett (1996)(money.cnn.com)
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Marc Andreessen: This Is A Tech Depression (businessinsider.com)
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by sayemm 14y ago
Interesting guy, and that BW article is an okay read but doesn't do that great of a job telling his story. But then I looked him up and came across this HuffPo article on him and absolutely loved reading it, it's a must-read for founders:
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by sayemm 14y ago
What I find interesting is that if you dig deeper into the outliers like Xero, you'll often find that the founder(s) behind it were far from being an overnight success story (although it's often interpreted that way when we read about it on
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Steve Jobs on Intelligence(achievement.org)
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Asking Consumers to Compare May Have Unintended Results(gsb.stanford.edu)
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by sayemm 14y ago
Right, most aren't, but his story shows how far a solo founder can go.
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by sayemm 14y ago
Interesting post by Markus Frind on just that, "Digital 100, most valuable boot strapped company" - http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/digital-100-mos...
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Strengthen your startup skeleton(max-levchin.tumblr.com)
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Startups & Timing(businessinsider.com)
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by sayemm 14y ago
Just curious, how old is Chris Dixon? Awesome news, I'm a big fan of his posts and his track-record as an entrepreneur/investor. He bleeds startups. Just looking at his LinkedIn profile to get a sense of his career path and where it's taken
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The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco - working notes(lifestylebusinessbookclub.com)
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Why Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is wrong(bbc.com)
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McAfee's Unusual Gospel of Wealth Led Him to Belize(finance.yahoo.com)
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by sayemm 14y ago
So, you finally had your first taste of startup success at age 34. And you started Y Combinator at 41. Think your story, along with many others in the Valley (e.g. Jim Clark), goes to show that this is a long-term game, and it only gets bet
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General Problem Solving Strategies (for programmers) (daniellefong.com)
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Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals(sas.upenn.edu)
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5 Lessons Learned While Being a Freelance iPhone Developer(sealedabstract.com)
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Secret to Success – Allen Wong(secretentourage.com)
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The 2012 Digital 100: The Complete List (businessinsider.com)
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Software Contracting and Legal Matters(sealedabstract.com)
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by sayemm 14y ago
I agree, and it's also a direction that I'm personally headed (currently focused on freelancing/bootstrapping), but I also think it has more to do with the current recession more than anything. It's a really tough environment now and I thin
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Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon(joelonsoftware.com)
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by sayemm 14y ago
Thanks, that was a great read. And therein lies the big risk-reward decision as an entrepreneur. I think that decision rests most heavily on whether you've got product-market fit or it's very clear to you that this is a land-grab opportunit
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by sayemm 14y ago
But if you've done all the hard work of building your business, proving your market, and crushing revenues or hitting profitability, then talking to investors becomes more like a partnership discussion than it does one where you're a poor,
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by sayemm 14y ago
Exactly. Funding is only a means to an end, and all too often startups forget that. Even if you look at the Google, Facebook, and Microsofts of the world you'll see that they were very lean to begin with and proved their market before scali
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The Best Equity is Sweat Equity (blogmaverick.com)
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Bootstrapping a (profitable) Internet company(venturebeat.com)
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Meet No. 1: Oleg Firer of Unified Payments(inc.com)
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Sam Yagan: Confessions of a Former Entrepreneur(inc.com)
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