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Posted in Business, Observations on May 28th, 2008
Dave Winer wrote up an excellent definition of the word bootstrapping. Guy Kawasaki attributes the term to the legend of the German legend of Baron Münchhausen who extricated himself from the sea by pulling himself up by his bootstraps in a post with excellent advice for startups.
Posted in Business, Observations on May 28th, 2008
General Motors has sold more cars than any other company in the world, year after year, for seventy seven years. Until now. In the first quarter of 2008, Toyota outsold them by 160,000 cars. James Surowiecki wrote an insightful article at the New Yorker on Toyota’s achievement. Surowiecki credits “…Toyota’s approach: defining [...]
Posted in Observations on Apr 21st, 2008
Just found out about a free conference for startups up at Stanford - Startup School ‘08 - and am sorry I missed out on it. While the approach of many startups seems to be focused on getting angel or VC funding, and spend months or years perfecting an application before launch, I think it [...]