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I would only build the things that I need," says Fried. "I’m really a big proponent of building products that we’re going to use.
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Always hire after you need someone, "after it hurts," not before. When companies ramp up fast in anticipation of work to be done, it can be really hard to hire […]
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When companies have a "free only" business model—thinking they'll make money later—they're usually betting that "there’s going to be this magic switch they can flip."
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Competition doesn't put start-ups out of business. Rather the businesses tend to put themselves out of business by hiring the wrong people, being afraid of making money, and spending too […]
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Raising money upfront puts you in the wrong frame of mind. A ventured-backed company has to spend money. A self-funded, bootstrap company has to make money.
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If you really want to get creative and work on something, you need uninterrupted stretches of quiet time. Jason Fried says you need to keep the distractions out.
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It’s best if people stay away from each other while they are working, because when people are all together all the time, they tend to constantly interrupt each other.
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A conversation with the co-founder and president of 37signals.
We physicists used to laugh whenever we talked about some of the topics that I mention in my book, "Physics of the Impossible"—some of these include such ideas as invisibility […]
Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi has it in for peace-loving Switzerland. He says he'd destroy the country if he had atomic weapons. But since he doesn't have them, he advocates wiping […]
Playing fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano is not unlike playing "Mario Cart" on the Nintendo 64, says Hilda Huang, who at 14 years old is Big Think's […]
The recent assessment of European banks' stability was a public relations exercise, says Al Jazeera. Banks look unprepared for the long term, but few are being moved to act.
"Google is not making us stupid, PowerPoint is not destroying literature, and the Internet is not really changing our brains." The L.A. Times tells its readers not to sweat new technologies.
Paul, the World-Cup-predicting octopus, has brought attention to recent research suggesting the octopus is a relatively intelligent animal despite its exclusion from the mammal club.
Those who oppose allowing a mosque to be built near the World Trade Centers have lost sight of America's tradition of religious tolerance and the simple facts of the mosque's construction.
Ross Douthat at The Times admits that the GOP is responsible for cap-and-trade's failure in the Senate, but he thinks his party is demonstrating "the wisdom of inaction" vis-a-vis climate change.
The U.S. needs "a long-term plan that recognizes the interrelated nature of obesity and global food sourcing." The Atlantic says our culture of cheap is forcing us to eat unhealthy diets.
The Washington Post's report on the bloated and secretive American intelligence community is more a story of today's information overload than villains with cloaks and daggers.
"Let’s not have a conversation about race." Tina Brown at The Daily Beast says that Shirley Sherrod’s firing isn't a teachable moment, but rather a "dangerous distraction."
Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and Judge Richard Posner oppose the extension of unemployment benefits. Six months compensation is not enough, says Becker, but two years is too long.