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What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

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If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.

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Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

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It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

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I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

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