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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. But it turned outthey didnt like us, because our software was easy to use and we hostedthe site.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” Launching Venture (34).

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