Business Bricks

A how-to:
1. Never hate your enemies.
2. Define your own success. “Don’t live by other people’s definitions of success. Hit your targets, not theirs.”
3. Don’t be a cog. “Since you were five, schools and society have been teaching you to be a cog in the machine of our economy […] it’s essentially impossible to become successful or well off doing a job that is described and measured by someone else.”
4. Don’t be average. “[benchmarking] stresses us out. […] In addition to the stress, benchmarking against the universe actually encourages us to be mediocre, to be average, to just do what everyone else is doing.”

Ev Williams on why pageview and hit counts are obsolete.

This is a v. of an email I’ve been emailing to poll interest:

I’m seriously toying with the idea of starting a physical coworking space in Brighton, perhaps a lot like the coworking space in SF etc http://coworking.pbwiki.com or, if no, http://www.the-hub.net i.e. a “cafe-like community/ collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.” - oh, and freelancers, small business owners and etc etc. I don’t know yet if the model is Really viable here or even exactly what form said model should take. But the very next step seems to be to flush out a group of perhapses - reply by email please. mailto:matt.weston@businessbricks.co.uk

by Mary.

Excerpt¹ from Paul Graham’s essay, How to Present to Investors: “The average startup probably doesn’t have much to show for itself after ten weeks. But the average startup fails. When you look at the ones that went on to do great things, you find a lot that began with someone pounding out a prototype in a week or two of nonstop work.” ¹Your excerpter notes that the excerpt he selected above is atypical of the essay from where it was excerpted, in that it’s not Really anything to do with presenting or investors.