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Assume the best but hire paranoid people.
Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.
Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.
Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.
What the Internet is great at is building networks.
Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.
The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.
I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.
Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.
I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.
I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.
The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.
I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.
I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.
A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.
Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.
Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.
Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.
My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.
I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.
I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.
Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.
Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.
I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.
When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.
Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.
'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.
User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.
Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.
When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.
When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, ‘Do fewer things.’ It’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that’s taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.
My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.