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Jason Fried
Co-founder, 37signals
Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, the Chicago-based web-application company. He has co-authored all of 37signals' books, including the upcoming, "Rework," as well as the 'minimalist manifesto,' "Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application" He also helps to maintain the company's popular blog, Signal vs. Noise, and is regularly invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software.
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When creating a new business, take your big idea and chop it in half. And then chop it in half again. Rather than loading your product up with lots of […]
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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.