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06.May.2009 the obvious point of a business

…is to make money.  Otherwise I think it’s called a hobby.  Another great Seth Godin quote: “There’s a great cartoon of a mathematician doing a complicated proof on the blackboard. The board is covered with all sorts of squiggles and symbols and then, at the bottom, it says, “And then a miracle happens,” followed by [...]

This is called competition

I’m using dailylit.com to read Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper’s Bible” and it’s great (it’s also completely free, I also just finished a novel by Cory Doctorow “Someone comes to town…”…let’s just say, not as good). Between he and Guy I think they could write the entrepreneur’s version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide. Here’s a quote that made [...]