Kako startovati start-up: debelo US dot-com iskustvo

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We officially launched in early 1996. By the end of that year we had about 70 users. Since this was the era of "get big fast," I worried about how small and obscure we were. But in fact we were doing exactly the right thing. Once you get big (in users or employees) it gets hard to change your product. That year was effectively a laboratory for improving our software. By the end of it, we were so far ahead of our competitors that they never had a hope of catching up. And since all the hackers had spent many hours talking to users, we understood online commerce way better than anyone else...


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Supernapucan, zanimljiv i veoma obiman tekst o ranim počecima elektronskog biznisa, prošaran debelim iskustvom. Autor je Paul Graham, čovjek koji je sa svojim timom razvijao jednu od prvih web aplikacija, koju je uskoro kupio Yahoo!...

Esej je inače dio njegove knjige "Hackers & Painters", a na samom sajtu se može pronaći još dosta dobrih tekstova. Inače,kao recenzenti knjige pojavljuju se neka zvučna imena, između ostalih: Chris Anderson (Editor-in-Chief, Wired), David Weinberger (co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto), Evan Williams (co-creator of Blogger), Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, (Creator/Director, Slashdot), Andy Hertzfeld (co-creator of the Macintosh), Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (creator of Ruby), profesorski kadar sa zvučnih američkih sveučilišta,...