Zitat des Tages von Paul Graham:
In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
Some people just get what they want in the world.
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.
I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
