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Fixed, thanks.
off topic, but I'd really like to see block quotes in hacker news comments.
You can already use "Code Mode"
to quote exactly, get things in
a different font, and formatted
exactly as you wish.
I'd like to see pg write more about #12: Getting Users.
the zappos talk given yesterday at startup school seems like a much longer-term solution to growth and repeat customers.
If wrote a new essay with the same outline as this that wasn't summarizing the founders' responses, everyone would say I'd run out of ideas and was just repeating myself. The Super-Pattern, 2nd para needs "If 'I' wrote a new essay".
Off topic - why the Yahoo favicon?
Off topic - why the Yahoo favicon?
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At the beginning of section 6. Think Long Term, you say "shear stress", but I think the word you intended to use is "sheer".
It's correct as written. See sense 9 at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shear -- shearing stress is the stress between two blocks pressed together along a plane and moving in opposite directions parallel to that plane. It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.
One of the reasons startups aren't for everyone is that most people strongly prefer a steady moderate income over a risky and sporadic one no matter how great (though they still buy lottery tickets). This helps explain #18 as well as #4 :)
So are you saying that running a startup is like playing the lottery?
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off topic, but I'd really like to see block quotes in hacker news comments.
What do you mean by "block quotes"? You can already use "Code Mode" to quote exactly, get things in a different font, and formatted exactly as you wish. It's a fixed width font, though.