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Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy. In a startup, you’re not just trying to solve problems. You’re trying to solve problems that users care about. So I think you should make users the test, just as acquirers do. Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users. As anyone who has tried to optimize software knows, the key is measurement. When you try to guess where your program is slow, and what would make it faster, you almost always guess wrong.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
to hear the inferior and the poor in spirit having their say is a terrible ear-splitting torment for him who knows and trembles at the thought,
The Will to Power
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
As the founding editors of Men’s Health magazine, Stefan Bechtel and Laurence Roy Stains, so succinctly put it in their book Sex: A Man’s Guide, “Studies show that three fourths of men are finished with sex within a few minutes of starting. But women often need 15 minutes or more to become sufficiently aroused for orgasm. And therein lies a world of rage, grief, and airborne pots and pans.”
She Comes First
Ian Kerner
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