Communities and Fragmentation by Karl Seguin

“The problem is quite simple: quality technical information is increasingly difficult to find. A chief cause for this is the sheer amount of content being published – increasingly so on personal blogs, which are outside of anyone’s jurisdiction. In fact blogging is so easy and effective that countless clueless developers are now technical authors. A dangerously high percentage of developers will gladly follow any advice they find on the web. The noise to signal ratio is just too high.”

from http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin/archive/2006/05/29/145713.aspx

The Hardest Lessons for Startups To Learn

"The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others. I think it's because some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive.

We've now invested in enough companies that I've learned a trick for determining which points are the counterintuitive ones: they're the ones I have to keep repeating."

from http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html