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Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

The new prototypical online creator is a conglomerate, not a contractor.

Sacra • Beacons: The Storefront for the Multi-SKU Creator that's Growing 3X Monthly

the company launched what could be considered its first big innovation: allowing

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

he worked as Netscape's product manager to pivot the server product line. Microsoft's IIS had all the features they had, was five times faster, and was free. Mike Homer and he worked furiously to acquire and partner. they beat Microsoft and grew the server line to $400M.

Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz

Subscription businesses allow you to distribute portions of your revenue to people who add value. This isn't rocket science this has been the business model for cable businesses for decades.

Kara Swisher • Sridhar Ramaswamy: Your search history is "incredibly personal"

Today, with the Internet, you get that gift of free distribution. We had to take advantage of that gift. That was the basic strategy. We had to switch from a business model where we made a lot of money per reader, with a relatively small number of readers, to a tiny bit of money per reader on a very large number of readers. That’s the transition we

David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the s... See more

Paul Graham • Do things that don't scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator

Richard Pachter

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Although Nelson was polite, charming, and smooth, I was too slow for his fast talk. But I got an aha! from his marvelous notion of hypertext. He was certain that every document in the world should be a footnote to some other document, and computers could make the links between them visible and permanent. This was a new idea at the time. But that wa