We are not making this because we want to sell it, we’re making it because it needs to exist.
 
John O’Nolan on why they’re building ghost.
 
A startup founder is in effect an economic research scientist. Most don’t discover anything that remarkable, but some discover relativity.
 
Quote from Startup = Growth by Paul Graham.
 
The big problem with avoiding competition is that you are also avoiding customers.
 
Erik Sink via Joel Gascoigne.
 
There is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.
 
Kevin Rose via Twitter.
 
Promote one Feature at a time. Make sure it’s the one people care about.
 
Patrick Ambron’s blog.
 
Build something users love, and spend less than you make.
 
Paul Graham, How to Start a Startup.
 
I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. You’ll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction.
 
Paul Graham.
 
Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.
 
Via Brainstorming Doesn’t Work.
 
People will forgive shortcomings, follow your lead, and sing your praises if you reward them with positive emotion.
 
Aarron Walter on Emotional Design.
 
@SirKenRobinson: If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.
 
Sir Ken Robinson in Schools Kill Creativity.