brainstorms

Wednesday May 24, 2006

startup lessons...

paul graham's latest essay the hardest lessons for startups to learn is useful, but perhaps more so for software projects rather than entire companies to ride on:

• release early

• keep pumping out features

• make users happy

• fear the right things [what other people could be doing]

• commitment is a self-fullfilling prophecy

• there is always room

• don't get your hopes up

• speed, not money

short but deep essays are hard to write. graham keeps trying; there are always interesting and nauseating tidbits. rough sketch after rough sketch, there is the promise of a finished work of real value someday.

related interesting reading: guy kawasaki's art of the start.