"Hey Scoble, Great list! But I have to take issue slightly with #10 — I agree that setting priorities is important. Scope creep is indeed rather tragic. However, what if it was your startup's goal to change a lot of things? I think too many startups take it easy nowadays. They pick a niche and do one thing well. But this just leads to a lot of meaningless, trivial crap. And if you'd care to counter with "but they can start with one thing and gradually expand", then I'd like to point to both Google and Facebook as counter-counter examples. Once your startup has launched and people have started using your services, they tend to be quite reluctant for you to change too many things underneath them — cf. the revolts at Facebook every time they tried to redo their UI. Now Facebook at least has tried and managed to succeed thus far, but Google doesn't even dare try too hard and instead stick to disparate sub-brands. The greatest innovations regarding the use of a tool tends to be at the..."
- tav
SPDY is a very interesting HTTP speedup protocol from Google http://dev.chromium.org/spdy... — and ppl thought i was mad for wanting to replace TCP! ;p