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People think startups grow out of some brilliant initial idea like a plant from a seed. But almost all the founders I interviewed changed their ideas as they developed them. PayPal started out writing encryption software, Excite started as a database search company, and Flickr grew out of an online game.

Founders at Work

Jessica Livingston

Compounding success (which means “growth” in the case of an early-stage start-up) solves almost all internal problems, particularly hard ones.

How to Be Successful (At...

@sama on Twitter

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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