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Apple's Mistake

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 12:39pm MST

"Software isn't like music or books. It's too complicated for a third party to act as an intermediary between developer and user. And yet that's what Apple is trying to be with the App Store: a software publisher. And a particularly overreaching one at that, with fussy tastes and a rigidly enforced house style. How would Apple like it if when they discovered a serious bug in OS X, instead of releasing a software update immediately, they had to submit their code to an intermediary who sat on it for a month and then rejected it because it contained an icon they didn't like?"

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What Startups Are Really Like

Posted: October 28th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"People just don't seem to get how different it is till they do it. Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to be like a job, and that explains most of the surprises."

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Persuade or Discover

Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"I'd rather offend people needlessly than use needless words, and you have to choose one or the other. If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't simply tell the truth. You're always going to have to add some sort of padding to protect their misconceptions from bumping against reality."

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Post-Medium Publishing

Posted: September 17th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"What happens to publishing if you can't sell content? You have two choices: give it away and make money from it indirectly, or find ways to embody it in things people will pay for."

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The List of N Things

Posted: September 8th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"Why do readers like the list of n things so much? Mainly because it's easier to read than a regular article. Some of the work of reading an article is understanding its structure. In a list of n things, this work is done for you."

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Posted: July 22nd, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in."

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A Local Revolution

Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"What if startups are both a new economic phase and also a type of business that only flourishes in certain centers?"

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The Founder Visa

Posted: April 11th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"The biggest constraint on the number of new startups that get created in the US is not tax policy or employment law or even Sarbanes-Oxley. It's that we won't let the people who want to start them into the country."

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Five Founders

Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"Steve Jobs. TJ Rodgers. Larry & Sergey. Paul Buchheit. Sam Altman."

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Relentlessly Resourceful

Posted: March 10th, 2009, 1:39pm MDT

"If you want to know whether you're the right sort of person to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful. And if you want to know whether to recruit someone as a cofounder, ask if they are."

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