Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
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going to focus on Microsoft and you know so for my 20s I was monomaniacal I did not read broadly
CHM Live | Bill Gates and Patrick Collison: In Conversation at CHM
So there has to be some year where you decide: in this part of my life, I know what I value. I am choosing; I am committing. And now I’m thinking of another idea I came across years ago—it must have been after I’d finished my bachelor’s, when I first started working as a designer—about devoting a year to going deeper, not wider.
and since i have never said ‘youth must end,’ youth will not end
Every story that matters is one that creates tension in its time. This doesn’t mean you have to be controversial or employ shock value. On the contrary, it means you have to make a statement about the world and force people to choose a side.
branding, strategy and positioning
Jasmine Bina, Concept Bureau
Transformational ideas for software—the ones that could become huge businesses and change the world—are rare and hard to spot. Even when they do work out, they often take tremendous effort and require an appetite for risk.
In contrast, incremental improvements to existing software are far easier to find . If you’re opinionated
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start small and
The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.
paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas
‘Founders tend to over integrate all the advice. They know they should do something but they feel like they should do something to else. In general you should go with what you feel that you should do. Because your emotional system is a great deal smarter than you give it credit for.’ - Joshua Schater
Businesses want to be active participants in their customers’ social landscape, because brand values are the last battleground for differentiation. This is the very justification for community marketing, and the driving force behind the evolution of brand social media accounts from joke memes to increasingly woke and personal human voices. Offering
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