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Marcel Wichmann recommended Print Page from nymag.com:

›Taking a job is in some ways like a second option,” says Akshay Kothari, who with his friend Ankit Gupta converted a Palo Alto garage into office space for their iPad-news-app company, Pulse. “If you say you’ve taken a job, it’s like, ‘Oh, you haven’t figured it out?’” Last year, the two Stanford classmates started building the news app as part of a class at the Institute of Design. Five weeks later, it launched on the iTunes App Store, where it sold for $4. It now has 5.5 million users.

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Marcel Wichmann Wunderbarer, ziemlich langer Artikel über Bubble Boys, die Jungs, die mit relativ großer Wahrscheinlichkeit in fünf Jahren relativ viel Geld haben werden, weil sie das next big thing erfanden. Hochgradig lesenswert.

October 6, 2011 | 0
doppeltim Da wünscht man sich echt, auch mal eine Idee zu haben und sowas durchzurocken. Zu dumm, dass ich zu dumm für sowas bin.

October 6, 2011 | 1

hakantee recommended Print Page from nymag.com:

Zuckerberg doesn’t code much for Facebook anymore, the same way that Steve Jobs never hand-coded software for the iPhone. But, as the Groups team was adding the finishing touches to its product, Zuckerberg said he wanted to write a few lines. “Everybody was like, Ohhhh, Zuck’s gonna write code,” says Feross. Someone set up an easy bug for him to fix—adding a link to a picture, or something—and he went to work. Five minutes passed. Twenty minutes. An hour. “It took him like two hours to do something that would take one of us who’s an engineer like five minutes,‹

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hakantee Das New York Magazine mit einem Stück über Coder und ihren Lebensstil. Das Zitat stammt von Feross und wurde von einigen Medien dankbar aufgenommen, um daraus einen Skandal hochzuschreiben. Feross selbst hat hier ( bit.ly/oTIqqE ) gebloggt, was es mit diesem Zitat auf sich hat.

September 16, 2011 | 0

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If you say you’ve taken a job, it’s like, ‘Oh, you haven’t figured it out?’

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jkleske A lot more great quotes in this article about the next generation of founders in Silicon Valley.

October 11, 2011 | 0

bool dog recommended Print Page from nymag.com:

YouTube Instant hasn’t changed the world—it hasn’t even made money. But its story describes the template for Silicon Valley these days, which may be a bubble, but it hasn’t popped yet: If you have an idea for an app, do it now. Throw it up online. Find an audience. Worry about quality later. Best-case scenario, you create the next Facebook. Worst-case, you try again. Even then, chances are you’ll get a job offer you can brag about rejecting.

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bool dog recommended Print Page from nymag.com:

Thompson, who has dabbled with cocaine in the past, compares it to the drug. “Writing code to me is the same experience,” he says. “It’s misery, misery, misery, misery, euphoria.‹

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