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The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers

by Hatch

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“Paradoxically, then, network effects businesses must start with especially small markets.”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

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“Let my mind be fixed on itself, cultivate itself, have no external interest – nothing that seeks the approval of another; let it cherish the tranquillity that has no part in public or private concerns.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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“our surroundings are strangely old: only computers and communications have improved dramatically since midcentury”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

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“indefinite optimism seems inherently unsustainable: how can the future get better if no one plans for it?”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

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“a great business is defined by its ability to generate cash flows in the future.”
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