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I recently had a run-in with the fact-checkers for Wired magazine. They wrote and asked me: - poorbird from Bookmarklet

"5. Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent. Ideally you want to make large numbers of users love you, but you can't expect to hit that right away. Initially you have to choose between satisfying all the needs of a subset of potential users, or satisfying a subset of the needs of all potential users. Take the first. It's easier to expand userwise than satisfactionwise. And perhaps more importantly, it's harder to lie to yourself. If you think you're 85% of the way to a great product, how do you know it's not 70%? Or 10%? Whereas it's easy to know how many users you have." - poorbird from Bookmarklet

1. Pick good cofounders. Cofounders are for a startup what location is for real estate. You can change anything about a house except where it is. In a startup you can change your idea easily, but changing your cofounders is hard. [1] And the success of a startup is almost always a function of its founders. - poorbird from Bookmarklet

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But the shock to the world of finance has been echoed by a shock to the world of academic economics that is just as profound. - poorbird from Bookmarklet

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"Google initially developed Android for cellphones (T-Mobile G1) but ASUS has allocated engineers to develop an Android-based Eee PC by as early as the year end, Samson Hu, head of the Taipei-based company’s Eee PC business, said in an interview with Bloomberg.com." - poorbird from Bookmarklet

fail? - poorbird from Bookmarklet