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Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

~Ben Parr

Topics: About Along Beliefs Building Company Else Embracing Happy Happy Life Learning Life Living Make Matter Mistakes Own Philosophy Someone Staying Successful True Way World You Your

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Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Anything Brutally Building Communities Empathy Enduring Entrepreneurs Expecting Fostering Help Help Others Honest May Others Partners Relationships Requires Return Self-Sacrifice Willingness Without

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The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Affair Big Business Colonies Costly Earth Flying Hard Just Lot Moon Off Outer Outer Space People Plain Reason Regular Requires Safely Space Technology To The Moon Trips Why

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Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Ability About Any Any Given Moment Giant Given Google Helped Hot Make Metric Moment More Most Offers Real Real Time Relevant Search Searches See Space Talking Time Topics Trends Truly Twitter Worked World Years

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Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Automatic Been Confused Data Game Interrupt Lost Movie Pain Point Result Sometimes Update Users Video Video Game Windows

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Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Always Back Based Beautiful Changes Choose Converts Data Famous Google Locations Making Over Page Tests Through Up Will

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Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Apple Companies Complementary Computers Data Design Devices Dichotomy Faith Google Made Maps More Other Phones Placed Power Provide Search Ship Tools Two Useful Web While Worships Would Youtube

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What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Apple Battle Between Both Changed Clearly Companies Data Design Google Learn Profitable Relationship Right School Successful Thought Wildly World

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The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

~Ben Parr

Topics: Entrepreneurs Even Hard Harder Most Play Successful Work World

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There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

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Topics: Data Entire History Internet More Over Than Through Transmitted

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 12th, 1985

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