Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The most common feedback Ive heard from readers has been that I should provide details on my background. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Ive updated the "official" conference bio below but otherwise the text remains unchanged from that original essay.)

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

undergrad could build something better as a class project. One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Bookselling isn’t a winner-takes-most market—but blitzscaling the Kindle platform allowed Amazon to become the runaway leader in what has turned out to be a winner-takes-most market for ebooks (and allowed readers to get instant access to nearly any book they wanted). In other words, it won the Cadillac. That’s the upside of competition.

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