Micah on April 29th, 2008

While getting ready for Startup School, I was frantically trying to plow through the bulk of Paul Graham’s essays. He mentions that an important read for preparing to start your own business is How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. I picked it up at the library (footnote: I bet most libraries [...]

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Micah on April 25th, 2008

LinkedIn appears to have gained an enormous user base. The majority of people I’ve worked with are already there. It took a few people prodding me to sign up before I bought into the idea. But I was still skeptical. What was the point of it? I couldn’t quite figure out what problem LinkedIn was [...]

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