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Startup Advice
The Democratization of the Startup
First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop Fucking Around
Editor’s note: Paul Stamatiou is Co-founder of Picplum , a Y Combinator-backed photo printing service, where he obsesses over both design and development.
Few people have the perspective of living and working in the tech industry that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has. Founder of the browser company Netscape and then of the software company LoudCloud, later renamed Opsware, he’s seen the boom and bust cycles and the shrill choruses of hype (tempered by reality) that go with them.
Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999 - Arik Hesseldahl
Founder Friday is a weekly guest post written by a founder who is based in or hails from the Silicon Prairie. Each month, a topic relevant to startups is presented and founders share lessons learned or best practices utilized on that topic. June's topic is role of founder.
Do what you do best
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants to stay the way it is.
The default state of a startup is failure
Seth Goldstein broke his advice for entrepreneurs down into 140-character bites.
Seth Goldstein: 10 tweets for startups
How to Make Wealth
May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters .) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup.
The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes
As Chris Dixon pointed out in a recent blog post , Angry Birds , the incredibly popular game, was software maker Rovio’s 52nd attempt. They spent eight years and nearly went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit.How to Start a Startup
March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard Computer Society.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed. And that's kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable.
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