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A Word to the Resourceful

Posted: January 17th, 2012, 12:39pm MST

"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

Posted: January 15th, 2012, 12:39pm MST

"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

Posted: November 6th, 2011, 12:39pm MST

"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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Tablets

Posted: December 2nd, 2010, 12:39pm MST

"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

Posted: October 23rd, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"Determination, Flexibility, Imagination, Naughtiness, Friendship"

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The New Funding Landscape

Posted: October 20th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"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

Posted: October 5th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"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

Posted: July 27th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"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

Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"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

Posted: July 6th, 2010, 1:39pm MDT

"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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