Hiring is Obsolete
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Saved by 15 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-03-20
- Jemfleming on 2007-04-08 - Tags work , freeworld
- Mstrohm on 2006-11-21 - Tags fun , hiring
- Alexko on 2006-11-18 - Tags imported
- Alexcrown on 2006-11-15 - Tags business , hiring , imported:del.icio.us , startup , toread , почитать
- Kazwell on 2006-09-19 - Tags business , graham , imported:del.icio.us , startups
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A sales force is worth something, I'll admit. But
marketing is increasingly irrelevant. On the Internet, anything
genuinely good will spread by word of mouth.
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Have you ever noticed that when animals are let out of cages, they
don't always realize at first that the door's open?
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In 1995 we thought only professional writers were entitled
to publish their ideas, and that anyone else who did was a crank.
Now publishing online is becoming so popular that everyone wants
to do it, even print journalists. But blogging has not taken off
recently because of any technical innovation; it just took eight
years for everyone to realize the cage was open.
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think most undergrads don't realize yet that the economic cage
is open. A lot have been told by their parents that the route to
success is to get a good job.
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When I talk to undergrads, what surprises me most about them is how
conservative they are
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Your
early twenties are exactly the time to take insane career risks.
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Remember that. If you start a startup, you'll probably fail. Most
startups fail
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If you try to start a startup right out of college and it
tanks, you'll end up at 23 broke and a lot smarter. Which, if you
think about it, is roughly what you hope to get from a graduate
program.
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The first twenty years of everyone's life consists of being piped
from one institution to another. You probably didn't have much
choice about the secondary schools you went to. And after high
school it was probably understood that you were supposed to go to
college. You may have had a few different colleges to choose
between, but they were probably pretty similar. So by this point
you've been riding on a subway line for twenty years, and the next
stop seems to be a job.
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The end of
school is the fulcrum of your life, the point where you go from
net consumer to net producer.
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You could also try the startup first, and if it doesn't work, then
go to grad school. When startups tank they usually do it fairly
quickly. Within a year you'll know if you're wasting your time.
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For example, the stated
purpose of Powerpoint is to present ideas. Its real role is to
overcome people's fear of public speaking. It allows you to give
an impressive-looking talk about nothing, and it causes the audience
to sit in a dark room looking at slides, instead of a bright one
looking at you.
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he Apple II was launched just two years later.
In fact, if Bill had finished college and gone to work for another
company as we're suggesting, he might well have gone to work for
Apple. And while that would probably have been better for all of
us, it wouldn't have been better for him.
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Public Comment
on 2006-07-31 by wenxin
on 2006-08-03 by bconnelly
on 2006-09-19 by kazwell