Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Same idea – too young and naive to know it can’t be done. However, it is far more unpredictable at the individual level. my “too young and naive to know it can’t be done theory.&#

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. There’s no question the three examples you give were successful — but how many tried to emulate them, and failed?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

They see the big “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&# and immediately think “this is ping.fm or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings.

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