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Implementing New Ideas Quickly

Mike Masnick:

How persistent branding gives a more stable image to the company

An interesting YouTube channel you should bookmark right now

http://www.youtube.com/user/PopurlsBrown
The Economics Of Abundance – Michael Masnick

Marc Andreessen on innovations, entrepreneurs and startups

Marc Andreessen, Founder of Ning, Opsware, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his insight to entrepreneurs at Startup School 08.

Customer Development starts by testing your hypotheses outside the building.

“Not in planning meetings, not in writing multiple pages of nicely formatted Marketing Requirements Documents, but by getting laughed at, ignored, thrown out and educated by potential customers as you listen to their needs and test the fundamental hypotheses of your business.”

In most cases, the team (including the best predictors) outshines the best predictor working alone.

I had a question about VentureBeat’s statement, and Leslie Fine has answered it.
VentureBeat:
As everyone has known since the modern corporation was invented, employees such as executive assistants or production line managers often have better information and more accurate insight than their management.
CrowdCast’s Leslie Fine:
The claim here is not that the administrator knows more than the [...]

The CrowdCast truth that Robin Hanson would debunk if Our Master Of All Universes were not so obsessed with signalling

VentureBeat:
As everyone has known [*] since the modern corporation was invented, employees such as executive assistants or production line managers often have better information and more accurate insight than their management.
[*] Hmm… Do research scientists really say that low- and mid-level employees know more than the executives? I would like a more rigourous take on [...]

The (new) Internet business models

This is the latest addition in our series about how to make money on the Web by giving out free content to get access to people and get their attention… and selling them something valuable with the other hand. So, here’s Michael Masnik. While you watch it, do download the files in MP4 using Video [...]

Outstanding post by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Check it out.
How to prepare for the worst… now.

The Cook Doctrine at Apple

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