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Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting…
The Happiness Culture: Zappos Isn't a Company - It's a Mission - Fast Company
Tony Hsieh sold earthworms, greeting cards, and slices of pizza. Along the way, he never considered that a failed business meant he was a failure. Then, the guy who wore the same pair of shoes founded Zappos. Today, Tony says it's all about Happiness, and he's got the business to prove it.
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs
At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.
How to Raise Money
How to Convince Investors
Behavior Model
How Human Behavior Works | Fogg Behavior Model
Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines
Three paths to market leadership.
seriouspony.com - seriouspony Resources and Information.
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Chasing facebooks next billion users
Startup = Growth
The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering, Says CEO Ben Silbermann
The way Pinterest grew had little to do with Silicon Valley wisdom.
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Early Days: Go Hard or Go Home
The Facebook CEO gives sage advice to a crowd of young entrepreneurs.
Jeff Jordan, Author at Andreessen Horowitz
Jeff Jordan is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he serves on the boards of Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD), Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Codi, Incredible
Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
I always thought that expanding my business at a steady pace was a smart move. Now I worry that it could potentially kill us
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
Homejoy adora cheung
How to Get Startup Ideas
Do Things that Don't Scale
Stupid Apps and Changing the World
An article came out today in Businessweek about arrogance and Silicon Valley. I thought it was good, but there was one more point I wanted to make. People often accuse people in Silicon Valley...
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Update (Sept 2014): I gave a talk on this topic during lecture 1 of Stanford’s CS 183B course. Check out the video if you’d like to hear more about deciding to become an entrepreneur. I’ve also added…
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
Ramen Profitability: What It Is & How To Get There - My Framer Site
The community, content & tools getting bootstrapped founders to ramen profitable, and beyond.
How to Do Effective Research for Your Historical Novel - HobbyLark
A well-written historical novel has many hours of research behind it. Here are some tips on conducting such research, as well as points to consider when creating a story within a historical context.
The Public Domain Review
Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
A Peek into the Indie Writer World – Part I: What Does it Mean to be Indie?
If you’re invested in reading books or if you participate in the convention circuit, you may have heard the term “indie writer” gaining popularity. What is an indie writer?
Radical Energy Abundance
Originally published at Roots of Progress, based on this thread. Everyone knows the industrial revolution occurred centuries ago and involved steam engines. That was just the warm up. We are now a …
Tabili aka Level151 aka Stash aka Graph-Rag.com
Tabil.io post mortem with Andrew Snyder and how it became Graph-Rag.com
Petrarch's Love Sonnets
Francesco Petrarch and Laura de Sade likely never met or spoke, but Petrarch wrote hundreds of sonnets about her and to her... (essay by Christine Norvell)
LOVE CONSTANT BEYOND DEATH
From "America's Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology," edited by Robert Pinksy and Maggie Dietz (W.W. Norton: 328 pp., $25)