www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I think the reason I made such a mystery of business was that I wasdisgusted by the idea of doing it. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. Thats nonsense.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ask your existing users this question via a survey. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? How can we reward our top users without money and without appearing too big brotherish? How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. The article and HN are concerned with software. Shocking, I know.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious.

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