Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
BIZ STONEI don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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People first. Technology second.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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