A Student's Guide to Startups

A Student's Guide to Startups: "The advantages of rootlessness are similar to those of poverty. When you're young you're more mobile—not just because you don't have a house or much stuff, but also because you're less likely to have serious relationships. This turns out to be important, because a lot of startups involve someone moving."

Be Relentlessly Resourceful

Be Relentlessly Resourceful: "This test is also useful to individuals. If you want to know whether you're the right sort of person to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful. And if you want to know whether to recruit someone as a cofounder, ask if they are."

Essays

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A Local Revolution?pad
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The Founder Visapad
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Five Founderspad
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Be Relentlessly Resourcefulpad
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How to Be an Angel Investorpad
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Why TV Lostpad
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Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.pad
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What I've Learned from Hacker Newspad
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Startups in 13 Sentencespad
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Keep Your Identity Small pad
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After Credentialspad
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Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?pad
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The High-Res Societypad
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The Other Half of 'Artists Ship' pad
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economypad
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A Fundraising Survival Guidepad
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The Pooled-Risk Company Management Companypad
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Cities and Ambitionpad
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Disconnecting Distractionpad"

Hiring is Obsolete

Hiring is Obsolete: "The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?

Like everything else in technology, the cost of starting a startup has decreased dramatically. Now it's so low that it has disappeared into the noise. The main cost of starting a Web-based startup is food and rent. Which means it doesn't cost much more to start a company than to be a total slacker. You can probably start a startup on ten thousand dollars of seed funding, if you're prepared to live on ramen."