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Excellent! Bookmarked and will be listening, I've definitely needed something like this for a while, and it's really a beautiful design to pull off.

#9, Pick a fight, is one of the best sales mindsets I've ever read. So true when you're scrapping and bootstrapping. Thank you for sharing your story! It's especially illuminating …

There's a new VICE documentary on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYglCDgpu0&list=PLDbSvEZ... I try to go to FloatLabs in Venice as often as I can, it's always been awesome. Do…

Suffering is caused by negative feedback loops. Work up the escape velocity to get out of whatever feedback loops you're trapped in. You won't be able to get out of ALL of them imm…

It's a leap of an idea... but... I can maybe see how letting people do what they love will work. The most important axiom of a startup is make something people want--you have to ma…

Cool! I like this a lot.

Sorry, WW1. I get those two mixed up all the time. And yeah, actually, it may be apocryphal, but here's why I believe it to be true. [1] http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/62…

It's a peacock's tail. In any environment where resources are abundant and there's no natural predators, species evolve to create lavish displays for sexual selection. Buying a rin…

Gilette. During WW2, they didn't have anyone to sell their products to, so they started marketing shaving to women. Before this, a woman shaving was akin to claiming yourself to be…

Wow. These guys rock.

Tynan, (creator of tasksmash.com) just launched his new platform called SETT on his blog. I gotta say, I've been excited to see what this could do since I first read about it, and …

Have you talked to your cofounders about it? If not, maybe you should. If you can't, then quit.