December 2011
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How to start a business, updated & revised
I was recently asked by a friend for advice on “how to start a business”. Here are some of the resources and advice I had for her.
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1. You can start it in your *spare* time, just carve out x hours / day / week to do *damage*.
2. Keep your expenditures down, be creative. Money doesn’t create great companies. Hard work & great people create great companies. In fact too...
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7 Things Highly Productive People Do
Via Inc, By Ilya Pozin | @ilyaNeverSleeps | article
I agree with everything save the phone. I’m allergic to the phone. As a computer geek I find it largely unproductive. Better to use project management tools, basecamp, lighthouse…
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My friends or robots? I choose robots, or...
Robots or ‘friends’? Answer; robots.
Friends or ‘the crowd’? Answer; the crowd.
Using my friends to discover movies, music, books…it’s fine in concept. However, I find the social graph an extremely flawed notion. E.g., I’ve rated nearly 2k movies @ Netflix. Their computers / robots / algorithms know what I will like better than my friends do. The problem with...
