November 2011
1 post
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Ben Franklin
October 2011
4 posts
“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at...”
– A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs | www.nytimes.com | Readability
“You escape the madness by seeing it as a thing you do, not a thing you make....”
– The one shot world – a case for career entrepreneurship and casual experimentation | blog.thestartuptoolkit.com | Readability
“Writer’s block arrived once quality was attributed to inspiration.”
– Trollope on shipping – The Startup Toolkit Blog
“First, delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty; reducing their effort—the...”
– Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers - Harvard Business Review
September 2011
1 post
“A restaurants best investment will always be the head chef.”
– Gordon Ramsay
July 2011
1 post
“One of Graphite’s greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses is the fact...”
– The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Graphite
June 2011
3 posts
“Believe that not much happens of any significance when we’re in our comfort...”
– Bob Parsons: A New Billionaire’s 10 Rules for Success - The Wealth Report - WSJ
“Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support...”
– Mark Twain
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...”
– Attributed to Albert Einstein but it may have just been a sign hanging on his wall at Princeton.
May 2011
7 posts
“The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more...”
– The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
“It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no...”
– Benjamin Elijah Mays
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool that I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs
“Don’t be small because you can’t figure out how to get big. Consider being small...”
– Seth’s Blog: Economies of small
“The brilliance of Facebook management is encouraging everyone to take...”
– Joe Hewitt
“Simple systems are harder to design, because you have to decide what to discard,...”
– Metamarkets Blog » Blog Archive » Four Lessons for Building A Petabyte Data Platform
“Lesson: Humans love stories. Tell yours on your website. Make it personal.”
– Six Startup Marketing Lessons in Six Photos | Software by Rob
April 2011
8 posts
“It’s such a funny thing. Threats—like hurricanes and rectal exams—are only scary...”
– Cranking
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
– Albert Einstein
“The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare...”
– How to Win Friends and Influence People
“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I...”
– Charles Schwabb
“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of...”
– How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The most important quality in a startup founder is determination. Not...”
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
“What you should fear, as a startup, is not the established players, but other...”
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
“As with exercise, improvements beget improvements. If you run every day,...”
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
March 2011
5 posts
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with...”
– Albert Einstein
“I am willing to bet there is a billion lines of code out there right now which...”
– The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
“You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know.”
– The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
“Malfunction elegantly? Yes. All human engineered products will malfunction, it...”
– OmniTI ~ On the Engineering of SaaS
“Making it robust and repeatable is far less important than making it quick and...”
– OmniTI ~ On the Engineering of SaaS
February 2011
4 posts
“Just some empirical evidence that seeking depth leads to breadth as a...”
– The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
“Creativity. Curiosity. Resilience to distraction. Patience with others.”
– How to Make Trillions of Dollars | Raptitude.com
“Your goal should be to get first-time visitors to come back.”
– The #1 Goal of Your Website | Software by Rob
“Gregg says at $9.99 there was no frame of reference for the value. At $12 / year...”
– Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99? | Both Sides of the Table
January 2011
1 post
“Do one thing as best as you possibly can.”
– Graham Wetzler: Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t
December 2010
9 posts
“The person paying for an item, not the seller’s internal overhead, desired...”
– Pricing on Purpose
“You cannot fully see anything new from an old place…. It is the leap, not...”
– George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty
“there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer”
– Flaherty, found in Pricing on Purpose
“…a group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a...”
– Amen! David Packard, found in Pricing on Purpose
“We could partition by function too. The simplest case is read vs. write. Often...”
– graceful degradation is your friend
“Our customers don’t have to go through a manual process to install new software...”
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/why-we-choose-html5-for-user.html
“Our PS3 UI was written entirely using HTML5, on a custom build of Webkit ported...”
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/why-we-choose-html5-for-user.html
“When Jobs offered us the easy way out, we took it. Freedom is overrated,...”
– The Men Who Stole the World -TimeFrames- Printout - TIME
“It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.”
– The Men Who Stole the World -TimeFrames- Printout - TIME
October 2010
3 posts
“Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
– Caterina Fake
“In the event of failures, which will this system sacrifice? Consistency or...”
– You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance | codahale.com
“No, these days even technical execution is mostly trivial (with a few exceptions...”
– Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding | Software by Rob
September 2010
3 posts
“The best way we’ve found to keep moving fast is to make lots of small...”
– Facebook (2) | Scaling Facebook to 500 Million Users and Beyond
“We haven’t funded a mere business plan since our founding three years ago....”
– » Prospecting LOWERCASE capital
“Entrepreneurs who are empowered by seasoned advisors, but free to frame...”
– » Creed LOWERCASE capital