Michael Burns

“point of view is worth 80 IQ points”—a”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Exercise A “warm” niche is a niche where you have some kind of association. Perhaps you worked for a credit card company for a few years, your wife is a lawyer, you collect comic books, or your brother is a plumber. Each of these would be considered a warm niche, and introducing a product into this niche will be much easier than choosing a completely unknown market. Remember, you stand a better chance when you know who you’re selling to. Make two columns on a piece of paper. In the header of the left column write “Person” and in the right one write “Hobby or Work Experience.” Now for each row write the name of someone you know, including yourself, friends, relatives or colleagues, and write their work experience or hobby in the right column.”
― Rob Walling, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

“It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.” —Alan Kay”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Punishment should follow as a consequence for a wrongful choice—for a malicious and evil exercise of the will. If you take away a man’s choice and deprive him of his will, then punishment is unjust, and executing him would be a travesty of justice.”
― H. Paul Honsinger, To Honor You Call Us