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A Word to the Resourceful

2012-01-17T12:39:47-07:00

"Understanding all the implications--even the inconvenient implications--of what someone tells you is a subset of resourcefulness. It's conversational resourcefulness."

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Schlep Blindness

2012-01-15T12:39:47-07:00

"Instead of asking 'what problem should I solve?' ask 'what problem do I wish someone else would solve for me?'"

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Why Startup Hubs Work

2011-11-06T12:39:47-07:00

"The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It's that death is the default for startups, and most towns don't save them."

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Founder Control

2010-01-11T12:39:47-07:00

"If it becomes the norm for founders to retain board control after a series A, that will change the way things feel in the whole startup world."

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Tablets

2010-12-02T12:39:47-07:00

"If the iPad had come first, we wouldn't think of the iPhone as a phone; we'd think of it as a tablet small enough to hold up to your ear."

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What We Look for in Founders

2010-10-23T12:39:47-07:00

"Determination, Flexibility, Imagination, Naughtiness, Friendship"

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The New Funding Landscape

2010-10-20T12:39:47-07:00

"After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil."

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Where to See Silicon Valley

2010-10-05T12:39:47-07:00

"It's a smart move to put a startup in a place with restaurants and people walking around instead of in an office park, because then the people who work there want to stay there, instead of fleeing as soon as conventional working hours end. They go out for dinner together, talk about ideas, and then come back and implement them."

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The Acceleration of Addictiveness

2010-07-27T12:39:47-07:00

"You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."

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The Top Idea in Your Mind

2010-07-22T12:39:47-07:00

"You can't directly control where your thoughts drift. If you're controlling them, they're not drifting. But you can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into. That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you. Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want think about."

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How to Lose Time and Money

2010-07-06T12:39:47-07:00

"The way most fortunes are lost is not through excessive expenditure, but through bad investments. In most people's minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn't."

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