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The definition of a Startup, according to Paul Graham: A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem. Read more...

Emailcharter is a page with ten short and practical rules to better email writing. As stated in the first rule, the underlying principle is to respect recipient’s time: The onus is on you to minimize the time your email will take to process. I discovered EmailCharter while listening to Tim Ferris’ conversation with Maria Popova. (Maria Popova is the sole author of Brain Pickings, a page that gets more than 5 million readers per month. Read more...

Buy from Amazon Dan Norris is a entrepreneur with an obsession for content marketing. He spent fourteen years launching several businesses and trying to make them profitable. But none of his startups survived. He failed every time. His current company, WP Curve, is profitable and growing over 10% month after month. It is one of the world’s fastest growing WordPress support company. What changed? What did he do different? Read more...

Buy from Amazon The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, by Daniel H. Pink and illustrator Rob Ten Pas. This manga-style novel offers concrete, no-nonsense career advice for young professionals. Johnny Bunko is doing what everybody –parents, teachers, counselors– told him to do. He got good grades at college. He found a promising job at a corporation, where he now works long hours. He tries to do his best. Read more...

Amazon has closed a multi-year deal with Simon & Schuster, covering both e-books and printed media. Negotiations only took three weeks. As David Gaughran points out in his article Amazon and S&S Agree Terms. Who’s The Bad Guy Again?, this leaves us wondering why Hachette can’t come to terms with Amazon. Read more...